Ash Gannicott
Postgraduate Researcher
English and Creative Writing
About me:
My research explores themes of disability, deafness, and body representation. I am particularly interested in looking at the cultural production of the deaf identity and how this identity is manifested in literature.
I am Assistant Editor of English Literature for Exclamat!on - Exeter's postgraduate journal for English, Film, Drama and Creative Writing.
I recieved my BA at The University of East London, and my MA from Exeter University.
Research Project:
The working title of thesis is 'The Cultural Production of Deafness and the Representation of Hearing Impairment Within Literature', and seeks to not only look at the representation of deafness within literature, but also the cultural and social narratives surrounding representation of the deaf and hard of hearing individual.
Research Supervisory team:
Paul Young
Research Wider Research Interests:
Disability Studies, Postmodernism, Transhumanism, Science Fiction
Education:
January 2016 January 2017
Exeter University
MA English Literary Studies: Criticism and Theory. Dissertation project, "The Able-Gaze and the Performativity of Disability."
January 2016 January 2013
University of East London
BA (Hons) English Literature. Dissertation project: "A Critique on the Neoliberalism and Triumphalism of Reagan’s America, as represented in Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981)."
