Graduate Student, School of Literature and Creative Writing
Thesis Title: Reading Ann Quin (1936-1973)
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Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge
Dr Kate Campbell Dr Karen Schaller |
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My thesis on Ann Quin will provide the first coherent overview of her writing. My project considers Quin's novels, short stories and letters in their 1960s British context. My aim is to establish her work as pivotal in British avant garde writing.
My core research interests are: the ways in which Quin's writing is transgressive; other British avant garde writers of the 1960s and 1970s; issues of the historical context, including gender, drugs, mental illness and youth culture; Quin's relationship to modernist intertexts, the nouveau roman and American avant garde prose and poetry; the approaches of Derrida, Deleuze, Barthes, Sartre, Berger, Laing; the problem of the case study.
My PhD (2008-2012) is funded by a School of Literature UEA scholarship. In Spring 2010 I was the the Everett Helm Visiting Fellow at the Lilly Library, University of Indiana, Bloomington. I am an associate tutor on the Modernism course here at UEA, for which I was awarded the Graduate Teaching prize. Currently, I co-organise a weekly interdisciplinary PhD seminar series, entitled *Dialogues* and run a monthly Late Modernist reading group, out of which came the 'out of print' conference - http://outofprintconference.co.uk/.
My BA was in Theology and Philosophy at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and my MA was in Studies in Fiction here at UEA. My MA dissertation was awarded the Lorna Sage memorial prize.
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