Biography

PhD in English (University of Warwick)
MA in Gender, Literature & Modernity (University of Warwick)
BA in English Literature (University of East Anglia)

Research Interests

* Twentieth century women’s writing
* Anglo-American Modernism
* Psychoanalysis
* Feminist literary criticism
* Humour studies
* Gender studies
* Literary ‘middlebrow’
* Trauma narratives

Publications

Joking Apart: Gender, Literature & Humour, 1850-Present
(Edited essay collection in preparation for Palgrave)

Chapters in Books:

‘Writing Self/Delusion: Subjectivity and Scriptotherapy in Emily Holmes Coleman’s The Shutter of Snow’ in Telling the Dark: Narrative and Depression. Ed. Hilary Clark. New York: SUNY Press, 2008. Forthcoming.

Teaching

Sophie Blanch teaches English Literature

Research Articles

‘"Half-amused, half-mocking": Comic Strategy and the Politics of Polite Laughter in the Feminine Middlebrow’ Writers on the Web (Special Issue: Investigating the Middlebrow). Forthcoming.

‘Contested Wills: Reclaiming the Daughter’s Estate in Vita Sackville-West’s The Edwardians’ Critical Survey 19.1 (June 2007): 73-83

‘Taking Comedy Seriously: American Literary Humour and the British Woman Writer’ Studies in American Humour 3.15 (Summer 2007): 5-15

‘"The Sacred Space of the "Mother-House": Reading Maternal Metaphors in Antonia White’s Frost in May’ Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering 4.2 (Fall/Winter 2002): 121-129.

Review Articles

‘Mary Jacobus, The Poetics of Psychoanalysis: In the Wake of Klein’ Textual Practice 20.4 (2006): 777-785.

‘Alison Berg’s Mothering the Race: Women’s Narratives of Reproduction, 1890-1930’ Studies in American Fiction 32.2 (Fall/Winter 2004): 248-250.

Areas for Doctoral Supervision

Twentieth century women’s writing; gender and modernism; feminism and psychoanalysis; literary humour; nineteenth and twentieth century American literature; life-writing and autobiography; trauma narratives; literary ‘middlebrow’ and cultural hierarchy; Harlem Renaissance writing.