Dr Kirsty Martin
Qualifications
BA Hons, M St, D Phil (All Oxford)
Role or Position
Fixed-Term Stipendiary Lecturer in English
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Academic Background
I gained my first degree at Pembroke College, Oxford, before going on to do my M St and D Phil at Linacre College, Oxford. I was elected to a Junior Research Fellowship at Linacre College in 2009, and taught for a range of Oxford colleges before taking up my current lectureship at Christ Church in October 2011.
Undergraduate Teaching
I teach nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century literature in English, as well as the ‘Introduction to Literary Studies’ paper.
Research Interests
Literature and emotion. I am currently in the final stages of revising my doctoral thesis for publication as a monograph entitled Modernism and the Rhythms of Sympathy. The thesis was recommended for publication by the Oxford English Monographs Committee.
I am also pursuing a further book project on understandings of happiness in twentieth-century women’s writing.
Publications include
Kirsty Martin, ‘Virginia Woolf, Sympathy and Feeling for the Human’, Towards a New Literary Humanism, ed. Andy Mousley (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
Kirsty Martin, ‘D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield and Happiness’, Katherine Mansfield Studies, 2:1 (October, 2010). Joint Winner of the Katherine Mansfield Studies Prize.
Hobbies
Swimming, yoga and meditation, cooking.
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