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Anna Girling is an Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow specializing in Twentieth-Century English and American Literature at the University of Edinburgh. She joined the institution in 2023 after completing her PhD at Edinburgh, focusing on Edith Wharton and queer literary studies. Girling holds master's degrees in English Modern History from the University of St. Andrews and English Literature from York University, Toronto. Her academic interests include literary decadence, modernism, anti-colonial literature, women’s writing, and queer studies. Girling is engaged in research that re-contextualizes Wharton's work within the traditions of European decadent literature and gay male literary histories. Additionally, she is exploring the writings of Nancy Cunard, addressing her anti-colonial and anti-fascist activism in the 1930s. Girling aims to supervise PhD students and is dedicated to teaching undergraduate courses on urban American writing and modernist literature. She is a member-at-large of the Executive Board of the Edith Wharton Society and has previously held fellowships at notable institutions, including the Eccles Centre at the British Library.
University of Edinburgh • Edinburgh, Scotland
Engaged in teaching and research specializing in Twentieth-Century English and American Literature.
University of Brighton • Brighton, England
Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London •
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