Graduate Student, English
Thesis Title: 'A Lifelong Romance': Male Narcissism in the Literature and Culture of the 1890s
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Prof. Mark Llewellyn
Prof. Dinah Birch |
About
After taking a degree in English at University College London, I followed the Victorian Literature MA at Liverpool, graduating in 2008. I am currently working towards a PhD thesis which constructs a pathology of male narcissism in the 1890s. My research considers texts and illustrations, particularly those by Oscar Wilde, J.-K. Huysmans, Jean Lorrain, George and Weedon Grossmith, Jerome K. Jerome, and Max Beerbohm. These works are explored in relation to psychoanalytic theory and nineteenth-century psychology and sexology.
I co-organised an AHRC-funded interdisciplinary conference, 'Crossing the Line: Affinities Before and After 1900', held at Liverpool in January 2010. More information can be found at: http://www.crossing-the-line.org.uk/index.html
I participated in the AHRC HAPPEN Public Engagement Programme for doctoral students at Tate Liverpool in 2011.
I have also enjoyed teaching undergraduates on Liverpool's 'Literature in Time', 'Close Reading' and 'Dickens' modules, postgraduates on the MA in Victorian Literature, and doctoral students at the University's First Year Skills Workshop.
