{"id":3279,"date":"2026-05-11T09:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/centre-for-book-cultures-and-publishing\/?p=3279"},"modified":"2026-05-11T09:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:34:14","slug":"elisabetta-tommarelli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/centre-for-book-cultures-and-publishing\/elisabetta-tommarelli\/","title":{"rendered":"Elisabetta Tommarelli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PhD project: <\/strong>Editors and Literary Production: Editorial Relationships and Collaborations in Twentieth-Century British Publishing<\/p>\n<p><strong>Funding:<\/strong> AHRC SWWDTP<\/p>\n<p><strong>Supervisors:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/experts.exeter.ac.uk\/26713-Kate-Wallis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr Kate Wallis<\/a> (University of Exeter), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/english-literature\/our-staff\/nicola-wilson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Professor Nicola Wilson<\/a> (University of Reading)<\/p>\n<p>Elisabetta Tommarelli\u00a0is a fully-funded AHRC doctoral researcher at the University of Exeter and Reading in the UK. Her main research interests lie in publishing history and studies, English literature, book history, editorial theory, and authorship studies.<\/p>\n<p>Elisabetta\u2019s PhD project investigates the role of the editor as a creative and intellectual collaborator in twentieth-century British literary production. Drawing on archival research, her work examines editorial relationships and the material conditions through which literary texts came into being, challenging the cultural narrative that centres the author as sole creative agent. Her research focuses on women editors working in mid-to-late twentieth-century British publishing, whose editorial work shaped major literary careers but has received little sustained critical attention. 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