果冻传媒

About

I am Assistant Professor of Literature and History and the Co-Convenor of our English and History degree.

I studied at the Universities of Sussex (BA in English Literature), with a year abroad at Reed College, Portland, Oregon; Oxford (MSt in English and American Studies); and Cambridge (PhD in English Literature), with a Fox International Fellowship at Yale University. I then held a Women in the Humanities Fellowship at TORCH Oxford, followed by a three-year Junior Research Fellowship in History (Corpus Christi and the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford), and a year-long Lectureship in American Literature at the University of Sussex. I was the 2021-22 Gardiner Fellow at the New-York Historical Society.

I am currently an Associate at the Institute for the Public Understanding of War at Imperial War Museum, London. I have previously held a Corpus Christi Fellowship at the Huntington Library, California (2017), a five-month Remarque Fellowship at New York University (2018) and a Fellowship at Rothermere American Institute, Oxford (2022-24).

Before coming to 果冻传媒, I taught at Cambridge, Yale, Wesleyan (CT), Oxford and Sussex. I really enjoy teaching and I was very pleased to win an 鈥楨xtra Mile鈥� Teaching Award at Sussex.

Research

My interdisciplinary research expertise is in twentieth-century literary and cultural history, particularly Anglo-American modernism (with a focus on book history: archival research, textual editing, and publication contexts), and literary and cultural memory, especially of war.

My monograph Commemorative Modernisms: Women Writers, Death and the First World War (Edinburgh UP, 2020) reconsiders the relationship between the Great War and literary modernism. Through analysis of writers including Edith Wharton, H.D., Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys, and drawing on international archival research, it provides the first sustained study of women鈥檚 literary representations of death and the culture of war commemoration that underlies English and American literary modernism. You can hear me talk about this book and . You can listen to my Katherine Mansfield Society Birthday Lecture, based on my chapter on Mansfield in this book, .

My second book project is a literary and cultural study of New York modernism in the early 1920s, when we see the deliberate creation of a new 鈥楢merican鈥� literary and public intellectual culture. Drawing on extended archival research, I read the literature produced in this period through networks of literary and cultural production and publication. You can hear me talk about this project . In May 2023 I gave the keynote lecture at the 果冻传媒 Postgraduate Symposium on 鈥楩itzgerald鈥檚 New York, New York鈥檚 Fitzgerald鈥� - you can watch a recording of that talk .

I recently edited an interdisciplinary Special Issue, 鈥極ver There: Rethinking American First World War Literature and Culture鈥� (First World War Studies, 2022), which reconsiders the impact of the war on American cultural development. My earlier publications include a critical edition of Edith Wharton鈥檚 First World War reportage, Fighting France (EUP, 2015) including archival material from Yale and Princeton on its book history, textual history and publication context; a journal article in Modernist Cultures considering the impact of military language on Katherine Mansfield鈥檚 writing; and a chapter on war letters in the Edinburgh Companion to the First World War and the Arts. In 2021 I wrote a public article on for Modernism/Modernity Print Plus. I have an interest in comics journalism and graphic novels, seen in my interview with the comics journalist Joe Sacco in the 2020 TLS Graphic Novels Special Issue.

I won a British Academy Rising Stars Engagement Award for my interdisciplinary seminar series Cultures and Commemorations of War, which considered the literary and cultural memory of war. The five public workshops I organised in Oxford and at the Imperial War Museum, London, from 2017-2019, brought together academics with practitioners, policy makers, charities, and representatives from the culture and heritage industries, with keynote speakers such as the Turner Prize artist Jeremy Deller. The series sought to particularly highlight the work of junior scholars.

Public engagement is an essential part of my scholarship. I have appeared on BBC radio, most recently on a programme about Wharton鈥檚 The Age of Innocence, as well as various podcasts. You can listen to some of them , and . As well as reviews in academic journals, I write features and reviews for the , , , and .

Teaching and supervision

I am the English Lead on the joint degree programme in English and History. I co-teach the undergraduate courses History and Textuality and Writing History.

I would be pleased to hear from potential undergraduate or graduate students interested in pursuing research in any of my areas of expertise.

I have an interest in healthy writing practices and postgraduate and early career support. I established and led the TORCH Academic Writing Group at Oxford from 2015-2021, as well as led undergraduate-focused and subject-specific groups at Oxford and Sussex. I have written about this academic support model in Times Higher Education and given invited talks on this at other universities.

Publications

Commemorative Modernisms: Women Writers, Death and the First World War (Edinburgh University Press, 2020)

Critical Edition of Edith Wharton鈥檚 Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort (Edinburgh University Press, 2015)

Edited Special Issue on 鈥極ver There: Rethinking American First World War Literature and Culture鈥� (First World War Studies, May 2022)

鈥楥OVID-19, Commemoration and Cultural Memory鈥�, Modernism/Modernity Print Plus (April 2021)

鈥楳ansfield Mobilised: Katherine Mansfield, the Great War and Military Discourse鈥�, Modernist Cultures, Vol. 12: Modernism and the First World War (Edinburgh University Press, 2017), ed. by Andrew Frayn, pp. 78-97

鈥榃ords from Home: Wartime Correspondences鈥�, in The Edinburgh Companion to the First World War and the Arts (Edinburgh University Press, 2017), ed. by Ann-Marie Einhaus and Katherine Baxter, pp. 77-94

鈥樷�淐an one grow used to death?鈥�: Deathbed Scenes in Great War Nurses鈥� Narratives鈥�, in The Great War: From Memory to History, ed. by Jonathan Vance, Alicia Robinet and Steven Marti (Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2015), pp. 329-49

鈥楰atherine Mansfield, War Writer鈥�, Introduction to Katherine Mansfield Studies, Vol. 6: Katherine Mansfield and the World War One, guest ed. by Alice Kelly and Isobel Maddison (Edinburgh University Press, 2014), 1-10

Selected Public Scholarship

, review article on Joe Sacco鈥檚 Paying the Land, including interview with the author, TLS Special Issue on Graphic Novels (1 May 2020), pp. 8-9

(The Conversation, 16 April 2019)

(The Conversation, 5 November 2018)

(TLS, 29 March 2017), pp. 17-19

(TLS, 6 November 2015), pp. 15-16

Publications on Writing Practices, Academic Skills and Early Career Support

(Times Higher Education, 26 March 2020), p. 27

(Times Higher Education, 30 August 2018)

(Times Higher Education, 2 March 2017), p. 30 (about my experience devising and leading my Academic Writing Group)

Recent Reviews

Sheila Liming, What a Library Means to a Woman: Edith Wharton and the Will to Collect Books, American Literary History (Fall 2022)

Marita Sturken, Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post 9/11 Era, TLS (April 2022)

鈥楢s American as apple pie鈥�, review of War and American Literature, ed. Jennifer Haytock, and A History of American Literature and Culture of the First World War, ed. Tim Dayton and Mark Van Wienen, TLS (16 July 2021)

鈥榋en and the art of a life in ink鈥�, review of John Porcellino, King-Cat Classix, Map of My Heart and Perfect Example, TLS (30 April 2021)

鈥楲etters to the Editor鈥�, review of The Times 鈥� Great War Letters: Correspondence from the First World War, ed. by James Owen and Samantha Wyndham, TLS (13 September 2019), p. 35

鈥榃ar Writing鈥�, review of Dead Ground: 1918-2018, ed. by Andrew McNeillie and James McNeillie, TLS (16 April 2019), p. 35

鈥楬alls and Stones鈥�, review of the Making a New World season at IWM London and IWM North, TLS (6 November 2018), p. 15

Hazel Hutchison, The War That Used Up Words: American Writers and the First World War, Modernism/Modernity, 23.1 (January 2016), 266-68