Thesis title: Developmental Landscapes in Mid-Twentieth-Century American Fiction
Supervisors: Professor Lloyd Pratt, Professor Nicole King
Research interests: twentieth-century American literature; southern literature; the novel; modernism; spatiality; ecocriticism; architecture; material culture
Doctoral research: My research examines the representation of emerging built environments in mid-twentieth-century American fiction, focusing on architecture’s relationship to futurity in the work of Zora Neale Hurston, Carson McCullers, and William Faulkner.