Stella Halkyard

Memberships (professional bodies)

Archive and Records Association, UK and Ireland (Registered member).

Career summary

BA English Literature (1987).

MA Archive Administration (1991).

MA Art History (1996).

Modern Literary Archivist, John Rylands Library, University of Manchester (1991-2010).

Archives and Visual Materials Manager (2010-ongoing), John Rylands Library, University of Manchester.

Areas of interest / research

The history of the book and visual culture.

History of photography.

Collections of art and visual culture in libraries.

Details of books/publications relating to your work on British portraiture

‘Thou hast not Donne’,  Archive Corner, PN Review 172, vol 33, no 2, Nov-Dec 2006.

‘Through the windows of the eyes: the silent revolution in reading’, Archive Corner, PN Review 178, vol 34, no 2, Nov-Dec 2007.

‘Wild for to hold: liberating the sonnet from all the corners of the archive’, Archive Corner, PN Review 187, vol 35, no 5, May-June 2009.

Since the beginning of 2012 I have been writing a regular column for PN Review entitled ‘Pictures from the Library’ which often focuses on portraits from the Rylands’ collections.