Sally Hamilton

I am a PhD candidate in English Literature in the faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Exeter, focusing on landscapes, liminal spaces and the legacy of Mary Borden's writing of the First World War. My thesis is supervised by Professor Tim Kendall and Dr. Paul Williams.

I have a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Exeter University and a Master of Arts (Distinction) from Anglia Ruskin University. 

My M.A thesis was titled 'From Apocalypse to Wasteland: Cormac McCarthy's Modernist Response to the First World War', and considered representations of psychological and environmental wastelands in texts influenced by the iconography of the First World War, with a particular focus on The Road by Cormac McCarthy

My main research interests are First World War literature and art, psychological trauma and shell shock, hauntology, psychogeography and representations of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic landscapes in the twentieth century. I also have wider interests in Gothic and the uncanny, Modernism, dystopian literature, cinema, alternative music culture, and nineteenth and twentieth-century art.

I have presented research papers at:

• Bristol Arts PGR Conference: Frontiers and Liminal Spaces - Spatial and Emotive Liminalities (University of Bristol, July 2024).

Upcoming conference papers:

• British Association of Modernist Studies - New Work in Modernist Studies 14 (University of East Anglia, December 2024)

Before returning to academia, I worked in publishing as a Picture Editor and Researcher; a literacy lecturer in Further Education; and a freelance music writer. I also spent many years as a specialist in Special Educational Needs Education, where I continue to work part-time.