Isabelle Stuart

Supervisor: Professor Michael Whitworth 

Doctoral Research: My doctoral research examines the influence of verse recitation practice and theory on the dissemination of modernist poetics from 1889 to 1939. It uses new digital humanities methods supplemented by archival research to define the influence of contemporary recitation cultures on the reception of modernist poetics, examining features such as the poems' politics of audience, the role of the theatre and the BBC. My research is funded by an award from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, an Asa Briggs Fellowship from Worcester College, and a Clarendon Scholarship. In 2023-4 I took up a Sachs Scholarship at Princeton University to pursue my interest in environmental studies, and in 2023 my research was awarded the Fathman Young Scholar Award from the International T. S. Eliot Society. 

Publications: 

'Poetry Bookshop Broadsides and Mass-Market Modernism', The Review of English Studies (2025), https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgaf039. 

'"The World That Sang and Listened": Yeats and Florence Farr's 'New Art' of Verse Speaking' in The Edinburgh Companion to W. B. Yeats and the Arts (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024). 

'Reading Eliot Aloud', The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual, 5:1 (2023).