Sofie Behluli
DPhil Candidate
Lincoln College
Thesis Title: The Work of Art in Contemporary Anglo-American Fiction
Supervisor: Professor Laura Marcus
Research Interests: contemporary Anglo-American fiction, künstlerroman, visual art and artists in fiction, visual culture, intermediality and ekphrasis, originals vs. copies/reproductions, aura, theories of post-postmodernism
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, Siri Hustvedt, Amy Sackville, Hanya Yanagihara, Claire Messud, Don DeLillo, John Banville and others.
