Dr Saskia Barnard

I work primarily on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature from Britain, America, and France. My interests include poetry and poetics; modernism and its predecessors; and literature in relation to visual and material cultures.

My first book—Poetry, Fashion, and Modernity—provides an alternative genealogy of Anglo-American modernist poetry as it emerged from French symbolism, documenting the significance of fashion to the imaginaries of both literary cultures. I am also at work on a shorter monograph on the British writer Hope Mirrlees, focussing on her relationship—in life and in writing—with the classicist and linguist Jane Ellen Harrison.