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Research and Innovation interests

Rhiannon is currently writing a monograph which considers how ideas about women and health operate in the work of three major early twentieth-century modernist writers: Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Richardson, and May Sinclair.

She is also working on consumption and suffragist thought in twentieth-century novels, and ways of reading patient-authored asylum periodicals (following a 2021 scoping project supported by the Glasgow Medical Humanities Network).

Teaching Interests

For 2023/24, Rhiannon is leading the second-year undergraduate literature module ‘The Victorians’.

Education/Academic qualification

English Literature, PhD, Health and Unhealth: The Condition of Women in the Fiction of Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Richardson and May Sinclair, University of Birmingham

English Literature, MA Literature and Culture (Distinction), University of Birmingham

English Literature, BA English (First-Class Honours), University of Birmingham

Keywords

  • PR English literature
  • modernism
  • twentieth-century literature and culture
  • emotion and the modern medical institution
  • medical humanities
  • disability studies
  • women's writing
  • Early Career Researcher

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