Dr. Helen Charman

Biography

Helen Charman is an Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, where she teaches primarily Lyric paper in the MPhil specialist seminar 'Free Association Fragmentation: Case History Literary Form'. She is also a doctoral supervisor at the Glasgow School of Art and a Fellow Director of Studies in English at Clare College. Her teaching experience includes positions at Anglia Ruskin University, Camberwell College of Arts, York St John University, and the University of Glasgow. Charman holds BA and MPhil degrees from Emmanuel College and completed her AHRC-funded PhD focusing on George Eliot's Generative Economies at Trinity Hall. Her research broadly encompasses the relationship between literary representation, feminism, social history, and psychoanalysis from the nineteenth century to the present. She has authored a forthcoming book titled 'Mother State', which examines motherhood as a political act, alongside several journal articles and book chapters exploring related themes. Charman is actively involved in public literary events and has contributed critical essays to various publications. Her ongoing projects include a public-facing book on the psychosocial history of governesses in literature and an academic monograph analyzing the interplay of psychoanalytic case histories and narrative style influenced by prominent authors.

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