Emma Felin
Thesis Title: The Aesthetics of Perception in Modernist Women's Poetry
Supervisor: Prof. Michael Whitworth
Doctoral Research: My DPhil thesis considers how the aesthetics of perception function in Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons (1914), Mina Loy's Songs to Joannes (1915-1917), H.D.'s Sea Garden (1916), Hope Mirrlees' Paris: A Poem (1920), Marianne Moore's Observations (1924), and Nancy Cunard's Parallax (1925). Other writers I consider in relation to this project include Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf—all of whom have featured prominently in my previous research.
Publications: 'A Peculiar Kind of Particularity: Plants and Animals in Marianne Moore's Early Poetry', Modernist Cultures (forthcoming in 2023)
'Faith and Fabrication in To the Lighthouse: Virginia Woolf's Table-Cloth(s)', Journal of Modern Literature, 45.3 (Spring 2022), 39-52 <doi:10.2979/jmodelite.45.3.04>
Research Interests: modernism; modernist poetry; feminism; embodiment; phenomenology; aesthetics; perception; philosophy of science; evolutionary emergence
