PhD Students
Kimberley Marwood, University of Essex
Kimberley Marwood is a PhD candidate at the University of Essex associated with the AHRC-funded surrealism and sexuality project. She. Her research is concerned with the influence of Gothic literature on the surrealists, focusing specifically on the work of French poets Valentine Penrose and Joyce Mansour. It also addresses surrealist legacies in literature and art and how surrealism is combined with the Gothic in the writing of Angela Carter and Kathy Acker, and the photographic work of artists such as Francesca Woodman and Anna Gaskell.
Julia Pine, University of Essex
The Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacies is currently hosting Julia Pine, a Canadian scholar whose work focuses on Salvador Dalí’s so-called American Period (circa 1939-1948). A recent graduate in Cultural Mediations at the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, she is at the Centre courtesy of a two-year Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council postdoctoral fellowship. Working from the University of Essex, she will be conducting research on Dalí’s paintings of the Spanish Civil War and WWII period, as well as the artist’s large body of society portraits.