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,' investigates satirical images of the female breast.
Situated within the medical humanities, my research draws upon a wide cultural body of work - medical texts, diaries, letters, magazines, poetry, and novels in addition to satirical and pornographic prints.
Key interests:
- The body, anatomy and corporeality
- Maternity and sexuality, conflicts of identity in motherhood
- The relationship between representation, experience and embodiment
- Graphic satire
- Transgressive maternal behaviour: ambivalence, rejection, violence and infanticide (and the pathologising of these)
My research is funded by a Vice-Chancellor's Scholarship.
I am a fellow of the Royal HIstorical Society and serve as the Postgraduate Lead for the Sexual Knowledge Unit.
