Research Supervisor Connect
My research began with Modernism and I wrote my PhD on Djuna Barnes and American expatriate writing. I still publish on Barnes in this context, and I am interested in the afterlives of Modernist texts, in late Modernism, a revived Postmodernism and the way in which periodisation and formal analysis engage political projects. I have recently presented on Djuna Barnes and adultery, and on Joe Orton, Kenneth Halliwell, and queer collage, at the MLA (Philadelphia, Jan 2017) and on the work of Roland Barthes at a roundtable on ‘Modernist Bodies In and Out of Motion’ at the MSA (Amsterdam, Aug 2017). My current research is focused by an interest in the affordances of genre and the play between genres in ‘novel objects,’ textual forms which seem to traverse generic/epistemological categories. I have an enduring commitment to feminist and queer political projects, social and cultural criticism, literary theory and popular culture.
Associate Professor Melissa Hardie.
English and Writing, School of Art, Communication and English (SACE)
I supervise PhD on Modernism and Postmodernism, American literature, queer theory, psychoanalysis, cinema, television, true crime, and associated topics.
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The opportunity ID for this research opportunity is 3031