Professor Abbie Garrington
| Post Nominals | MA (Hons) PhD FRGS |
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| Biography | About Me Office hours: Friday 10-11am (via Zoom) and by appointment. My research interests lie primarily in the modernist period, with particular expertise in literature's rendering of tactile experience and wider cultures of touch in the early twentieth century, and in modernist writing's engagement with mountain landscapes and the figure of the mountaineer up to and including the Second World War. Broadly, I investigate language's capacities and limitations when addressing the adventures of the human body. I completed my studies at the University of Edinburgh, with a short break pre-PhD, working full time as a journalist. I was granted a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (Edinburgh), and held a permanent lectureship in modernist literature at Newcastle University (including a Leverhulme Research Fellowship) before joining Durham in early 2015. Strategic Roles Associate Director, DurhamARCTIC Research Centre Member, University REF Advisory Group |
| Research Interests | Late Victorian, modernist, mid-century, and contemporary writing The body and the senses Touch/the haptic; gesture; histories of the human hand Attention; distraction; habit; rhythm; repetition Mountain writing; polar cultures; expeditionary history |