Languages and Literature, University of Leicester
Thesis title:
Lucretia Rose McCarthy, 'Review of "Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency" by Olivia Laing,' Everybody's Reviewing <http://everybodysreviewing.blogspot.com/2020/08/review-by-lucretia-rose-mccarthy-of.html>
[Forthcoming] Special issue of Taylor & Francis' Life Writing journal based on 'Life's Not Personal: A Creative-Critical Conference on Experimental Life Writing,' Editor.
[Forthcoming] Interview with author Joanna Walsh, Life Writing
[Forthcoming] 'Radical Exposures: Crip and Queer in Maggie Nelson's Autotheory,' C21 Literature
Created Identities Conference 2020, 'Agent Provocateur: Subversive Identities in the Experimental Life Writing of Chris Kraus'
Midlands4Cities Research Festival 2021, 'Exposing Her Sources, Exposing Herself: Challenging Otherness in the Experimental Life Writing of Maggie Nelson'
PAMLA Conference 2021, Autobiography Panel, 'Crip/Queer/Other: Radical Exposures in Maggie Nelson's Autotheory'
Life's Not Personal: A Creative-Critical Conference on Experimental Life Writing 2022, Organiser and Panel Chair <https://lifesnotpersonalconference.wordpress.com/>
Wellcome Collection, 2022, Material Encounters Workshop Participant
Lloyds Banking Group, 2022, 'Raising Marginalised Voices' Talk
Life Writing Workshop, 2022, organised in collaboration with author Sean Hewitt for Life's Not Personal Conference
Whitechapel Gallery Placement, 2022, 'Unheard Voices: Marginalised Stories from the Whitechapel Gallery Archive.' Talk and article forthcoming
Literary Leicester Festival, 2023, 'Joanna Walsh in Conversation with Lucretia Rose McCarthy.' Forthcoming
Lives in Conversation Chapbook and Website, 2023, ft. artwork from Caitlin Chase (Babeworld). Forthcoming
Queer Theory
Gender Studies
Feminism
New Media
Contemporary Literature
Life Writing
Medical Humanities
Crip Theory
January 2020 - Present: Contemporary Women's Writing Association
June 2021 - Present: Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
January 2022 - Present: Auto/Biography Society
University of Leicester School of Arts Shorts, November 2020, 'Weird, Feared, and Queered: Contemporary Experimental Women's Life Writing'
University of Leicester Book Club, November 2020, Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts
Queen Mary University of London Alumni for LGBTQ+ History Month, February 2022, <https://www.instagram.com/p/CaegpqqAYgD/>
MA English Literature [Distinction]
Queen Mary University of London September 2017 – September 2018
Dissertation topic: ‘Disrupting Truths, Disrupting Selves: Women’s Contemporary Experimental Autobiography’. A 15,000 word exploration of five contemporary life writing texts spanning experimental forms to thematically interrogate presentation of the body, mind and relationships through feminist critical theory. [Distinction Classification]
BA English Literature and Linguistics [First Class Honours]
Queen Mary University of London September 2011 – June 2014
Dissertation topic: ‘Awakening the Working-Class Tradition, Personal and Political Influence of a Hybrid-Realist Novel – The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists’. A 10,000 word exploration of Robert Tressell’s Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, a realist novel from a working class perspective that I argue sparked the beginnings of the working class literary tradition and persists in creating real world political, social and cultural impact. [First Class Classification]
I have received training to gain proficiency in writing and editing, arts management, working in archives, and research ethics and integrity. Below, I list key courses:
Royal Literary Fund, Creative Writing with Marina Benjamin, accepted via competitive application
University of the Arts and Central Saint Martins, Arts Management course
University of Leicester, Interview Skills for Researchers
Royal Literary Fund, Editing with James McConnachie, accepted via competitive application
University of Leicester, Preparing to Teach in Higher Education
Peer Reviewer for University of Nottingham's Languages, Texts and Society Journal
Advanced HE Associate Fellowship, awarded January 2023
Graduate Teaching Placement 2021-22, University of Leicester, School of Arts
Modules Included:
The Novel Around the World (Undergraduate, Y1)
Concepts in Criticism (Undergraduate, Y2)
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