Paul Leworthy (Student Profile)
Thesis title: Dimensions of memory - container spaces and writing surfaces in novels by Grass, Perec, Modiano and Walser.
PhD in Comparative Literature
Year of study: 3
- Department or European Languages and Cultures
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Contact details
- Email: paul.leworthy@ed.ac.uk
PhD supervisors:
Background
Paul is a third-year PhD student in Comparative Literature. His doctoral research is supported by a Wolfson Foundation Postgraduate Scholarship in the Humanities.
He has also been a tutor in French and German at The University of Edinburgh since 2016.
Before coming to Edinburgh, Paul studied modern foreign languages and European literatures at The University of Nottingham (BA) and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (MA) respectively.
Undergraduate teaching
German 1b literature (2016-17; 2017-18)
French 1b literature & civilisation (2017-18)
Postgraduate teaching
HCA German Reading Course (2015-16; 2016-17; 2017-18)
Research summary
Paul's PhD research explores the interconnection of memory, language and space. Triangulating memory, metaphor and materiality, he examines how objects and spaces are involved in representations of memory in a number of post-war French and German novels.
Thesis title: Dimensions of memory - container spaces and writing surfaces in novels by Grass, Perec, Modiano and Walser.
Supervisors: Prof Peter Davies (German) and Dr Claire Boyle (French)
Scholarship: Wolfson Foundation Postgraduate Scholarship in the Humanities
Project activity
Connecting Memories Research Initiative (http://www.connectingmemories.org/)
LLC Work-in-Progress Seminar Series (https://www.ed.ac.uk/literatures-languages-cultures/graduate-school/news-events/seminar-series/llc-wip-seminars)
EUSA Class Rep (Students' Association Representative) for Comparative Literature PhD Programme