Languages and Literature, Nottingham Trent University
Thesis title:
My PhD ‘A Feminist Figurine: Reclaiming the Doll in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Women’s Writing’, examines women writers who challenge perceptions of gendered subjectivity by engaging with the figure of the doll; considering this figure in relation to sexuality, monstrosity and posthumanism. The project largely focuses on neglected Anglo-American women’s writing by twentieth-century authors, including Margery Lawrence, Daphne du Maurier, Margaret Yorke and Thea Von Harbou, and twenty-first-century texts, including ‘Doll: A Romance of Mississippi’ (2005), The Heart Goes Last (2015), The Silent Companions (2017) and Frankissstein (2019), to explore and interpret connections across a hitherto unrecognised corpus of works that focus on this figure of female gender identity. It also draws on late-eighteenth to nineteenth-century patriarchal literature in periodicals, such as The Lady’s Magazine (1770-1847), as a touchstone for the doll’s alignment with female submission.
'Book Review: The Cultural Construction of Monstrous Children: Essays on Anomalous Children From 1595 to the Present Day. Simon Bacon and Leo Ruickbie. (2020)', Aeternum: The Journal of Contemporary Gothic Studies, 7. 2 (December 2020), 45-47
'Faye Hammill, PPCRG New Directions (Report)', PPC Digest (15 December 2020)
'Eighteenth Century Journals', Women's Writing (Taylor and Francis Online, 21 July 2020)
Talks:
27th March 2019, 'Women's Writing after Suffrage', Bromley House Library - presented my research findings alongside Dr Catherine Clay.
6th March 2019, 'The Anti-Bildungsroman', NTU English Research Fair.
Poetry, Women's Periodicals, Victorian literature, Penny Dreadfuls, Contemporary Film and Media.
Periodicals and Print Culture Research Group (PPCRG) at NTU
Feminist Studies Association (FSA)
International Gothic Association (IGA)
Angela Carter Society
Contemporary Women's Writing Association (CWWA)
Arts and Humanities Doctoral School Student Representative
Athena SWAN Student Committee Member