Katie Snow
College: College of Humanities
Discipline: English
Department: Department of English
I am a PhD candidate and recipient of the Vice-Chancellor's Scholarship.
My thesis, provisionally entitled 'Satirising the breast: visions of maternity and sexuality in late eighteenth-century England', investigates representations of the female breast within satirical prints, specifically tracing contemporary constructions of natural and unnatural femininity.
Situated within the medical humanities, my research draws upon a wide cultural body of work - I use poetry, novels, medical texts, diaries and magazines in additional to satirical and pornographic prints.
Key interests:
- Satirical prints of women
- Gender and sex stereotypes
- Conflicts of identity in motherhood
- Transgressive maternal behaviour: ambivalence, rejection, violence and infanticide (and the pathologising of these)
- Radical women in the French Revolution
