About
Anna is a third-year PhD candidate in the School of English, supervised by Karen Solie. As a poet and a scholar of literature and linguistics, her thesis includes creative and critical aspects. She works on the intersection of metonymic figuration and feminist approaches to the sublime, particularly in poetry of inconsolable experience from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Her critical thesis considers the work of American poet Deborah Digges, among others, and is currently titled 'The Accidental Star Inside the Apple: Detail and Crisis in Contemporary Women's Poetry'. Anna is also writing her own collection of poems. She understands her creative practice to inform her critical investigation, intending for both to contribute to new understandings of the practice of writing poetry; thus her research can be seen as practice-led. Her doctoral research is funded by the School of English Handsel Scholarship.