Student profiles
Lily Martin
Twitter: @LilyVMartin
Email: l.v.martin@keele.ac.uk
Thesis Title
Institution
Supervisors
Dr Rebecca Bowler (Keele)
Professor Ceri Morgan (Keele)
Dr Joanna Taylor (Manchester)
Research Summary
My thesis investigates the circulation of bodies within the hotel spaces of early twentieth-century international anglophone modernist literature, with particular emphasis on fitness and the fit-for-purpose body. I conceptualise fitness as both the body’s health and regulation and its ability to ‘fit in’; to perform able-bodied conformity or pass within certain spaces.
Hotels facilitate movement within, between, and beyond the modernist metropolises, as transnational ‘non-places’ nonetheless located in specific geographical locations (Augé). Combining literary mapping with conventional Humanities analysis methods, my research joins the emerging subdiscipline of Geohumanities. I employ digital map-making to analyse spatial and cognitive relationships between a hotel and its local environment and visualise the ways bodies experience certain places.
Research Interests
Hotels
Modernist Literature
Digital Humanities
Bodily Fitness
Modernist Wellness
Geohumanities
Publications
“Mapping Jean Rhys’s Good Morning, Midnight”, British Association for Modernist Studies New Work in Modernist Studies 13 Annual Conference, 08 December 2023, University of Liverpool.