Dr. Sharon Choe

Biography

Sharon Choe is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Copenhagen. She holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of York, where her thesis explored how artist-poet William Blake utilized Old Norse culture to create poetry concerning disabled body politics. Her current research project, DEATHRIT, funded by the EU, investigates representations of Norse 'Viking' death rituals in eighteenth-century British literature, positing that Anglo-Nordic cross-cultural exchanges played a crucial role in the nation formation of Britain during this period. Sharon aims to develop a new theoretical approach to the metaphor of the body politic, extending her previous work in Disability Studies to consider visions of death rituals in the context of nation-building. Her research encompasses a variety of fields including Medieval Norse Studies, political philosophy, and Medical Humanities, with recent publications poised to appear in peer-reviewed journals focusing on Blake and disability through Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press. In addition to her academic work, Sharon is a fiction author, represented by Laura Crockett of Triada US Literary Agency, and actively engages with the traditional publishing industry.

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