Thesis title: Being Moved: Dance and Poetry in the Early Twentieth Century.
My thesis examines how poets and dancers thought and wrote about movement in the first half of the twentieth century.
Supervisors: Professor Rebecca Beasley and Professor Susan Jones
Research interests: Modern poetry in English and in French. Modern dance. Interactions between literature and visual art. Notebooks and sketches. Metaphor. American literature.
Artists, dancers, writers: Guillaume Apollinaire, John Ashbery, John Cage, Lucinda Childs, Edwin Denby, Isadora Duncan, H.D., T.S. Eliot, Loïe Fuller, Martha Graham, Stéphane Mallarmé, Henri Michaux, Marianne Moore, Bronislava Nijinska, Gertrude Stein, Paul Valéry.
