Dr. Marlene Briggs

Biography

I completed my PhD in English Literature at the University of Ottawa and held a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship in the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University before joining the Department of English at the University of British Columbia. My research focuses on war conflict interdisciplinary studies, emphasizing twentieth and twenty-first century literature and the shifting frameworks that shape individual and collective understandings of the past. I specialize in the cultural transmission and reception of World War I modern British literature, tackling issues such as testimony, history, trauma, mourning, and memory. Currently, I am investigating Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group in the context of the aftermath of international hostilities and intergenerational legacies of the World War in British culture and society. I teach various aspects of literature related to these themes and have published extensively on these topics, including works on Virginia Woolf and the representation of trauma and conflict in literature.

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