{"id":608,"name":"Miriam Helmers","url":"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/miriam-helmers-013\/","description":"Miriam Helmers focuses her PhD at University College London on figurativeness in Charles Dickens, researching a potential connection between his unique style of figurative comparison and embodied \"make-believe\" in performances of Dickens (performed readings and adaptations). She holds an MA in English Language from the University of British Columbia (2019) and a BA in English from the University of Toronto (2011), both in Canada. After teaching for two years at a high school in Toronto, she completed a BDiv in Theology at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome, Italy (2016) before returning to Canada and to her first love of English literature to pursue a career in academia. Her other interests include all things theatrical and pedagogical, the history and structure of the English language, Old English, biblical exegesis, and ecclesiastical Latin.","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/clic-dickens\/author\/mgchelmers\/","slug":"mgchelmers","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/clic-dickens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2020\/02\/miriam.jpg","48":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/clic-dickens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2020\/02\/miriam.jpg","96":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/clic-dickens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2020\/02\/miriam.jpg"},"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/clic-dickens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/clic-dickens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}