Sofie Behluli
DPhil Candidate
Lincoln College
Thesis Title: Women Writing Novels on Art: Ekphrasis in Twenty-First Century Fiction
Supervisor: Professor Laura Marcus
Research Interests: contemporary Anglo-American fiction, women's writing from the 19th c. to the present, ekphrasis and visual art in fiction, word-image configurations, art writing, theories of the novel
Doctoral Research: My doctoral thesis explores the representations and functions of visual art in contemporary Anglo-American fiction. I focus on the figure of the artist, the artistic process and the work of art in novels by Donna Tartt, Amy Sackville, Hanya Yanagihara, Claire Messud, Siri Hustvedt and others.
