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Matilda Blackwell

Languages and Literature, University of Birmingham

Thesis title:

Reading the Bathroom in Early Twentieth-Century Women's Writing

Research Area

  • Languages and Literature

Conferences

  • Modernism and Multiple Temporalities, MSIA2 International Conference, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan, 12-14 September 2019: 'Fluid Temporalities, Subversive Spaces and Queer Female Community in the Asylum Bathroom'
  • Spaces and Places: An Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference, Bruges, Belgium, 13-14 April 2019: 'Therapeutic Spaces, Fluid Sexualities & Female Community'
  • Katherine Mansfield: New Directions, Birkbeck University, 28-29 June 2018: 'Queering the Water-Cure: Fluid Sexualities in Katherine Mansfield’s Turkish Bath'
  • Medical Humanities Workshop, University of Lancaster, 19 April 2018: 'Queering the Water-Cure: Fluid Sexualities in the Therapeutic Bathroom Spaces of Emily Holmes Coleman, Antonia White and Katherine Mansfield'
  • Queer Modernism(s) II, University of Oxford, 12-13 April 2018: 'Queering the Water-Cure: Fluid Sexualities in the Therapeutic Bathroom Spaces of Emily Holmes Coleman, Antonia White and Katherine Mansfield'
  • New Work in Modernist Studies Conference, University of Leeds, 15 December 2017: 'Closet Spaces: Reading the Bathroom in Early Twentieth-Century Literature'


Other Research Interests

  • Forgotten women writers
  • Middlebrow fiction
  • Sussex modernism
  • Domestic space
  • Queer modernism
  • Medical humanities

Memberships

  • British Association of Modernist Studies
  • Katherine Mansfield Society
  • Midlands Modernist Network

Professional Activities