Leonie Wareham Wanitzek

https://oxford.academia.edu/LeonieWanitzek

About: I am a postdoctoral researcher, having recently completed my doctorate in English at the University of Oxford. My thesis, ‘Writing Towards Italy: Place, Space and Identity in Vernon Lee, E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence’, was supervised by Prof Stefano Evangelista. I also hold an M.A. in English Literatures and Literary Theory from the University of Freiburg, Germany. My current research project, 'Queer Prosperities', looks at intersections between gender/sexuality and property, literary production and inheritance in the lives and works of late 19th- and early 20th-century British writers and scholars, including Vernon Lee, Michael Field, Jane Harrison and E. M. Forster.
My doctoral thesis focused on British authors writing on Italy from the 1880s to the 1920s, with a particular interest in literary representations of space and place. I have also worked on nostalgic Englishness and leisure, gender, friendship and desire.

Research Interests: Victorian, Fin de siècle, Edwardian and early 20th-century literature, homes and houses, property and inheritance, material culture, space and place, tourism and travel writing, aestheticism, non-fictional prose forms, gender and queerness, Vernon Lee, Michael Field, Jane Ellen Harrison, E. M. Forster, D. H. Lawrence, Italy, national and cultural identities.