Isabel Rolfe
Doctoral Student in Literature - Isabel’s thesis is entitled 'Reading Interiority and Narrative Spatiality in Modernist Women’s Writings'.
Research Project Title:
Reading Interiority and Narrative Spatiality in Modernist Women’s Writings
Supervisors:
Dr Fionnghuala Sweeney + Dr Alex Niven
Contact Details:
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests:
- Decadence
- Modernism
- Psychoanalysis
- Feminism
- The occult
- Literary consciousness
- Spatiality
Brief Outline of Research Project:
This project posits the existence of a collective feminine unconscious, exploring the occult as a medium through which to create revenge fiction. It explores the intertwined origins of psychoanalysis with the occult, and centres overlooked female voices, tracing this idea throughout decadence and modernism.