Madeleine Rose

Thesis title: Entanglement and Innovation in the Work of H.D, Marianne Moore, and Charlotte Mew

Supervisor: Professor Michael Whitworth

Research interests: modernism; modernist poetry; ecocriticism; environmental humanities; periodical studies; transatlantic modernism

Doctoral research: My thesis examines how modernist poetic experimentation was informed by changing attitudes towards and scientific understanding of the natural world. Focusing on the poetry of H.D., Marianne Moore, and Charlotte Mew, I explore how the entanglement of subject in environment influenced these poets’ formal innovations. This approach is informed by both material ecocriticism and study of late nineteenth and early twentieth century ecology. Before starting my DPhil, I completed an MA in English Literary Studies at Durham University where I received the Raman Selden Prize for highest performance in an English MA programme.

Teaching: I have taught classes and tutorials for Prelims Papers Three and Four and have been a Graduate Teaching Assistant on the FHS Paper Six option 'Elements of Criticism'. I have supervised or am supervising undergraduate dissertations on twentieth and twenty-first literature and the environment and modernist formal experimentation. I am an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Publications:

'Talking Animals? The Challenge Presented by Nonhuman Voices in Marianne Moore's Early Poetry', The Modernist Review, 50 (2024)

'"Many little wildernesses": Harriet Monroe, Poetry, and the Reader as Tourist', Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, 16.2 (2025), pp. 107-129

'"crimson haunts you everywhere": Spilling Blood and Unsettling Bodies in Charlotte Mew's Poetry', Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (forthcoming)