Clea Butcher
Thesis title: Tragic Modernity in the Australian literary imagination
PhD English literature
Year of study: 3
- English Literature
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Contact details
- Email: c.e.butcher@sms.ed.ac.uk
PhD supervisor:
Qualifications
BA, English Language and Literature, University of Oxford
MA, English Literature, University of Sydney
Current research interests
My current research explores the relationship between the tragic mode and modernist narrative techniques in the early to mid-twentieth century Australian novel.Papers delivered
"The Tubercular Body in Dymphna Cusack's 'Say No to Death' (1951)", Marginalised Voices in Modernism, Aestheticism, and Decadence Conference, 2026.
"Tuberculosis and Tragic Modernity in Australian literature", International Conference on Medical Humanities, 2026