University of Dundee

The Gendering of the Visual: Katherine Mansfield & Visual Culture

Academic History:

2013-present: PhD in English & Visual Culture

2012-2013: MLitt in English Studies with distinction

2008-2012: MA English, First Class (hons)

Supervisors:

Dr Keith Williams

Dr James Stewart

Dr Mary Modeen

Research Interests:

• Modernist Literature
• History of women’s fiction
• Women’s contributions to early cinema
• 20th century art movements
• Intermedial relationships in the arts

My research takes a feminist approach to the relationship between modernist fiction & visual culture, suggesting that the engagement with the visual in modernist fiction has different social & cultural significance in the works of female authors. Through a study of the fiction of Katherine Mansfield, my research posits that Mansfield & her contemporaries were inspired by new, non-literary media, from modern art to cinema, which allowed them to represent a changing world & cast off the influence of older, male-dominated literary forms.

Previous Research Projects:

• MLitt Dissertation: ‘Visual Consciousness and Cinematicity in the Early Fiction of Virginia Woolf’

Scholarships/ Awards/ Publications:

• 2014-present: AHRC DTP Studentship
• 2013-2014: AHRI Research Postgraduate Scholarship
• The Don Paterson Award for best overall performance in MLitt English Studies
• ‘“Into Unknown Country”: Cinematicity & Intermedial Translation in Mansfield’s Fictional Journeys’ – Published in the Katherine Mansfield Studies journal, Volume 7

Contact Details:

Address: Room 2.22, Tower Extension, University of Dundee, Nethergate, Dundee DD1 4HN

Email: f.e.harland@dundee.ac.uk

First published: 1 October 2014