Shauna Walker
- Email: ensw@leeds.ac.uk
- Thesis title: A1 Nation: Health, the Body and Interwar Literature
- Supervisors: Dr Clare Barker, Dr Tracy Hargreaves
Profile
In 2018 I graduated from the University of Manchester with a First Class Honours Degree in English Literature and in 2019 I completed my Masters with a Distinction in Modern and Contemporary Literature. I joined the University of Leeds in 2020 as a Postgraduate Researcher in the School of English, working on representations of health and the body in interwar literature (1919-1939). My doctoral research is fully funded by the AHRC through the White Rose College of the Arts and Humanities consortium.
Research interests
- Early Twentieth-Century Literature
- Medical Humanities
- Nationhood
- Environmental Humanities
My research interests in interwar literature focus on representations of national health especially in relation to British landscapes and environments.
Awards
- Anthony Burgess Prize from the University of Manchester (2018)
- Highly Commended by the Global Undergraduate Awards (2018)
- The Manchester Alumni Scholarship Scheme (2018-2019)
- AHRC Doctoral Studentship from the White Rose College of the Arts and Humanities consortium
Publications
‘Gothic Modernisms: Modernity and the Postcolonial Gothic in Tayeb Salih’s ‘Season of Migration to the North’’, Gothic Studies, 22 (2020), 285-299.
Qualifications
- BA English Literature (University of Manchester)
- MA Modern and Contemporary Literature (University of Manchester)