Katie Snow
College: College of Humanities
Discipline: English
Department: Department of English
Recent publication: Violent discharges: the French breast in British revolutionary era caricature in Women's History Review (September 2020)
My PhD thesis, 'Satirising the breast: representations of trangressive femininity in late eighteenth-century British caricature,' investigated satirical images of breasts.
Situated within the medical humanities, my research draws upon a wide body of work - medical texts, anatomical illustrations, diaries, letters, and magazines, in addition to satirical and pornographic prints.
Key interests:
- The body, anatomy and corporeality
- Anatomical illustrations
- Caricature, satirical prints
- Maternity and sexuality, conflicts of identity in motherhood
- The relationship between artistic representation, social experience and embodiment
- Transgressive maternal behaviour: ambivalence, rejection, violence and infanticide
