Selves on Trial: Confessions in Life-Writing – Work-in-progress presentations
Thursday, 8 December, 2022, 4.00-5.00pm, in the Centre for Research Collections Seminar Room, 6th floor, University of Edinburgh Main Library.
A one-hour Edinburgh Life-Writing Network research-in-progress panel, proposed and with presentations by Edinburgh doctoral researchers and James Tait Black Biography Prize readers, Aiswarya Jayamohan and Maxime Geervliet, followed by discussion.
Aiswarya Jayamohan: “stupid and gauche and naïve”: The Scene of the Insult in Mulk Raj Anand’s Conversations in Bloomsbury
Aiswarya Jayamohan is a PhD researcher in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Their doctoral project pivots around the ‘misstep’ in twentieth century writing, and the socio-aesthetic forms that can emerge out of such moments of tactlessness, impropriety, or embarrassment.
Maxime Geervliet: “Two of the Best Moments of My Life”: Karl Ove Knausgaard and the Structure of the Postponed Confession in My Struggle 1 and 2
Maxime is a third-year PhD researcher in Comparative Literature. Her PhD research focusses on the confessional dimension in contemporary autobiographical literature from the UK and Scandinavia. Her research explores concepts that are tied to confessional writing, such as ‘the self’, shame, guilt, honesty, truth, memory and performance.
All welcome! Please email simon.cooke@ed.ac.uk if you intend to come so we can keep check on numbers.
