Modernism's Chronic Conditions

Dr Laura Salisbury  from the English Department at Exeter University is co-investigator on this project, along with Elizabeth Barry from the University of Warwick. Ulrika Maude from Bristol University is collaborating with them on this workshop as the Principal Investigator. This interdisciplinary network will bring the insights of modernist literature, dance, and the visual arts into directed contact with medical practice in psychiatry, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, neurology, and the mental healthcare offered at the end of life. Its aim is to explore the resources modernism offers for creatively understanding experiences of body and mind poorly served by realist models of self. Dr Kirsty Martin, also in the English Department, will be using her recent research on modernism and happiness to contribute to the workshop. The event is free to attend, but places are limited.