ABOUT
THE TEAM
Dr Francesca Bratton
Francesca Bratton teaches at Maynooth University. Her research interests lie in U.S. and British literature, ranging from early twentieth-century poetry, prose and material cultures to contemporary poetry and women’s essay writing. Her first monograph Visionary Company: Hart Crane and Modernist Periodicals is forthcoming with EUP. Her current research project ‘Radical Women and the Poetics of Resistance (1900-1939)’ explores the relationship between poetry, politics and pedagogy in the work of Lola Ridge, Mary Colum and Gwendolyn B. Bennett. She is currently the Year’s Work in English Studies reviewer for British fiction 1900-1930. Recent publications include articles on Hart Crane’s post-Decadent literary networks (English and Wild Court), newly discovered work by the poet (Notes & Queries) and his reception in the UK (PN Review).
Dr Megan Girdwood
Megan Girdwood is an Early Career Research and Teaching Fellow in the Department of English at the University of Edinburgh. Her research and teaching interests cover fin-de-siècle and twentieth century Anglophone literature and performance, with a special focus on modernism in its interdisciplinary contexts. Her first book, Modernism and the Choreographic Imagination: Salome's Dance after 1890, will be published by Edinburgh University Press in May 2021. She has recently begun work on a new project, examining the importance of 'kinaesthesia' as a sensory and aesthetic category in queer and feminist modernisms of the period 1880-1940. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Journal of Modern Literature, Modernist Cultures, the Cambridge Quarterly and the Irish Studies Review.
Dr Fraser Riddell
Fraser Riddell is Lecturer in English and Medical Humanities at Durham University. He is a specialist in Victorian and early-twentieth century literature, with particular interests in queer theory, Decadence and aestheticism, and theories of embodiment. His current project explores cosmopolitanism and the senses at the fin de siècle, with a particular focus on tactile sensory perception and theories of embodied cognition. His monograph Music and the Queer Body in English Literature at the Fin de Siècle includes discussion of works by Walter Pater, Vernon Lee, E. M. Forster, and others, and is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. Recent publications include articles on John Addington Symonds and the Victorian chorister in Victorian Literature and Culture and on queer musical geographies in Decadent literature in the Journal of Victorian Culture. His chapter on the queer materiality of breath in the works A. E. Housman and other late-nineteenth century writers is included in The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture, and Medicine (Palgrave, 2021). In the coming year he will undertake research fellowships at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas and at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice.