Harriet Smith Hughes
DPhil Candidate
Christ Church
Thesis Title: Genres of Intimacy: The problem of the personal in four genres of nonfiction
Supervisor: Prof. Merve Emre
My work looks at representations of 'the personal' across various genres of nonfiction, focusing on 21st century North American literature and its inheritances from queer and affective criticism of the 1990s.
Research interests include: critical, lyric, and personal essay; the critical manifesto; anthologisation; obituary; impersonality; collectivity; queer of colour critique; affect.
