Thesis title: Developmental Landscapes in Mid-Twentieth-Century Southern Fiction
Supervisors: Professor Lloyd Pratt, Professor Nicole King
Research interests: nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature; southern literature; the novel; modernism; spatiality; ecocriticism; architecture; material culture
Doctoral research: My research examines the representation of emerging built environments in mid-twentieth-century American fiction, focusing on architecture’s relationship to futurity in the work of Zora Neale Hurston, Carson McCullers, and William Faulkner. Other writers considered in this project include Willa Cather, Toni Morrison, William Maxwell, James Agee, Elizabeth Hardwick, Henry Dumas, and Joan Didion.
