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Helen Charman's research broadly focuses on the relationship between literary representation and social history, particularly in the context of psychoanalysis, from the nineteenth century to the present day, with a specific emphasis on depictions of reproductive experience. Her book, 'Mother State', combines a variety of interpretative modes to consider mothering as an explicitly political public act from 1970 to the present. Currently, she is preparing her doctoral thesis, 'George Eliot's Generative Economies: Transactional Maternal Sacrifice in Social Realist Fiction, 1853-1894', for publication as a monograph. In addition to her academic work, Charman regularly writes critical essays on literature, film, and visual art for several platforms including The White Review, Parapraxis, Art Review, Gaze, and Frieze. She also chairs public events, having participated in notable venues such as the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Wellcome Collection, Cambridge Literary Festival, and Southbank Centre. Furthermore, she held an editorial residency at MAP magazine, funded by Creative Scotland, from 2020 to 2021.
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