Member Profile
Name:
Ms Catrin Thomas
Institution:
Cardiff University
Academic status:
Student
Main discipline:
Literary Studies
Additional disciplines:
Cultural Studies
Other societies:
Bibliographic Society
Research interests:
My primary research interests are literary cultural memory and narrative studies, particularly in transmedial contexts. My PhD, The Madwoman in the Algorithm, looks at gendered literary archetypes emergent in nineteenth-century literature, investigating the persistance and recirculation of these archetypes within online political communications. I am interested in the way that social media, as an algorithmically mediated space, privileges simplistic narratives, and want to examine oline discourse around women in positions of authority, through the lens of nineteenth-century literary archetypes.