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Megan Girdwood is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, focusing on literature from 1880 to 1940. Her research interests broadly encompass late nineteenth and twentieth-century literature, with specific areas of interest in modernism, performance, embodiment, and dance. Currently, she is undertaking a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for the 2024-2025 academic year to support an ongoing project titled 'Kinaesthetic Modernism: Writing Sense Movement, 1880-1940.' She has published notably on modernist fiction and its relationship with performance and dance, analyzing figures such as Oscar Wilde and Virginia Woolf. Girdwood's publication 'Modernism and the Choreographic Imagination: Salome's Dance 1890' was released by Edinburgh University Press in 2021, exploring the intersection of modernist literature with dance iconography. Her research contributions have been recognized with awards such as the British Association Modernist Studies Essay Prize in 2020. Girdwood has experience teaching various undergraduate and postgraduate courses, including those focused on modernism, literary theory, and dissertation supervision. She is actively involved in the Moving Bodies Lab at Durham University and has secured multiple fellowships to enhance her research pursuits.
University of Edinburgh • Edinburgh
Lecturer in English Literature, focused on 1880-1940, teaching modernism and related courses.
Durham University • Durham
Focused on modern literature as part of the English department.
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