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Research Summary
Current Status
Currently registered PhD (full-time)
Research Topic
The Monstrous Mother
Research Summary
My project questions and explores Western culture's philosophical, psychoanalytical and literary depictions of motherhood. It is a blended creative-critical research project consisting of a hybrid mixture of poetry, literary criticism, dialogue, and biography. My writing is not restricted to conventional academic prose, allowing form to play an active part in the development of content.
My work plays in the border between the lyric and the essay,exploring the physical and psychological changes produced by childbearing and childrearing. 'Demonstrate' and 'monster' derive from the same Latin root and throughout the project I aim to demonstrate rather than explain. Not only exploring the ambivalence of motherhood, this project is a reclamation of monstrosity.
Research Interests
Creative/criticism
The lyric essay
Maternity
Post-natal depression
Research Supervisor/s
Assistant Professor in Creative Writing, Faculty of Arts,
Lila Matsumoto https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/people/lila.matsumoto
Assistant Professor in Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Faculty of Arts,
Bridget Vincent https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/people/bridget.vincent
Primary Funding Source
AHRC Midlands4Cities studentship
https://www.midlands4cities.ac.uk/
Publications (Creative)
Stephanie Limb, My Coleridge (Broken Sleep Books, 2020).
'Pearl' in Ink, Sweat and Tears http://www.inksweatandtears.co.uk/pages/?p=19654
'On Fabrication and Viscosity' in Marble, 5 Summer 2019.
'Humancules' in The Moth, Issue 38 Autumn 2019.
'The Nightingale and the Swallow' in Litro https://www.litro.co.uk/2019/08/the-nightingale-and-the-swallow/
'Athena' and 'Quickening' in Stand, 225 volume 18.1 March-May 2020
'Newton-on-Sea' in Structo (20)
'Vulpes vulpes' and 'Parental Singularity' in Brittle Star