Plymouth University

Faculty Member, Plymouth Business School

Lecturer

School of Tourism and Hospitality (including Modern European Languages and Culture)

About

Link to My Staff Page at the University of Plymouth

http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/pages/dynamic.asp?page=staffdetails&t=e&id=cmansfield

About My Research

Here at the University of Plymouth my role as Visiting Fellow is to evolve a research programme to explore the dialogue between fictional representations of the city (most often textual in the form of literature) and the development of urban spaces as sites of consumption in travel, tourism and heritage management.  I aim to identify agency, such as the role of the writer or marketing body, alongside a close-reading of the text itself.  Ultimately, through the writing of text analysis software and its application to web content or large literary corpora in both French and English on particular cities, I am designing modelling tools for destination management.  To this end I am currently working in Web 2.0 LAMP technologies, such as PHP and JavaScript, and my work-in-progress, called Loceme, may be used at the following url http://eserve.org.uk/loceme/

I have been fortunate in securing funding from the British Academy to disseminate my findings and the text analysis software in the UK and France (via the CNRS in Paris & Nancy).

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