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Personal profile
Biography
I am a museologist, historian and literary theorist, studying the intersections between museums and other cultural media, including literature, drama and comics. I utilize novelistic and poetic forms and concepts to open up new ways of considering visitor experience in museum contexts, and literature as an analytical framework for understanding the construction and performance of museums. Drawing upon this study, I am looking at new ways to create more representative, inclusive, egalitarian, and intellectually open institutions.
I completed a PhD at the School of Museum Studies, Leicester, in 2013, and an MA in 2009. I have worked as a Collections Assessor, Research Assistant, Editor, and Docent, and have volunteered with the Galleries of Justice Museum, the Ashmolean Museum, and the Royal Shakespeare Company Collections. I am a member of the Museum Ethnographers Group (MEG), the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Ethnography (ICME), and work as editor for Museum & Society, and the Best in Heritage Projects of Influence Award.
Education/Academic qualification
Arts & Social Sciences, PhD, Timescapes: The Production of Temporality in Literature in Museums, University of Leicester
Sept 2009 → 10 Jul 2013
Award Date: 10 Jul 2013
Arts & Social Sciences, Masters Degree, The Quotidian and the Bizarre: Rewriting the Day Book, University of Leicester
Sept 2008 → Sept 2009
Award Date: 10 Jan 2010
Arts & Social Sciences, Masters Degree, Oh Sisters Too: Women in the Medieval Mystery Cycles, University of St Andrews
Oct 2003 → Jul 2007
Award Date: 13 Jul 2007
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Museums and the Power of Absence: Agrippa (A Book of the Dead)
Walklate, J., 2024, Reinventing Presence: Museums and Emerging Technologies. Shehade, M. & Stylianou-Lambert, T. (eds.). 1 ed. Routledge, p. 182-195 14 p. (Routledge Research in Museum Studies).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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"Forgettings that want to be remembered": Museums and Hauntings
Walklate, J., 16 Nov 2023, In: Angelaki: A Journal of the Theoretical Humanities. 28, 6, p. 71-83 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Time and the Museum: Literature, Phenomenology, and the Production of Radical Temporality
Walklate, J. A., 25 Jul 2022, 1st ed. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. 210 p. (Routledge Research in Museum Studies)Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Engaging with the dead: exploring changing human beliefs about death, mortality and the human body. Edited by Jennie Bradbury and Chris Scarre, Oxford, Oxbow, 2017, 288 pp., £55 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-7857-0663-9
Walklate, J., 2020, In: Time and Mind. 13, 3, p. 331-332 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
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Museums and Communities: Diversity, Dialogue and Collaboration in an Age of Migrations
Golding, V. (ed.) & Walklate, J. (ed.), 1 Nov 2018, Cambridge Scholars Press.Research output: Book/Report › Book
13 Citations (Scopus)