Christine Jarvis

Christine began her career by working for twelve years in community, further and adult education, including work for the WEA and teaching University extra-mural classes. During this time she developed Access to HE provision, community-based courses for adults and Women's Studies courses.

Prior to taking up the post of Dean at Huddersfield she was Head of Education and Humanities at Sheffield Hallam University.

She has particular interests in the transformative potential of literature and fiction, (in all its forms, film, television, novels, digital narratives) and this has been the main focus of her research. Her early work concentrated on the use of popular romantic fiction and on teen fiction.

She is currently working with Professor Patricia Gouthro from Mount St Vincent University on an analysis of the use of the arts in professional education. She continues to be interested in young adult fiction and has just completed a paper on The Twilight Saga as a form of public pedagogy for girls, which has been published in Children’s Literature in Education.