Martha Swift

Thesis Title: World Time: narrative openings and cosmopolitics in transnational fiction

Supervisor: Professor Ankhi Mukherjee

Contact: martha.swift@new.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests: world literature (and the temporality of 'world'); contemporary literature; autofiction; narrative time; myth and literature; transnationalism; cosmopolitanism; environmental humanities; ecocriticism; waste
 

Doctoral Research: My research is concerned with temporal definitions of world and worldliness in contemporary ‘global’ novels. I am interested in the self-consciously literary relationship between writer, nation and world and in the syncopated experiences of time that concurrently arise from the deployment of autofictional strategies in twenty-first-century narratives about nationhood, homecoming and (trans)national identity.