Grace Cowtan

Supervisor: Professor Laura Marcus

Research Interests: Modern and contemporary literature, culture and thought; philosophy of time; representation of time, silence, absence and identity.

Doctoral Research: My research explores representations of suspended time within contemporary literature, and the specific implications this has within the contemporary moment. My thesis will examine a range of works by Anglo-American authors, and, through an engagement with philosophy, will consider the ways in which suspended time is portrayed and employed as a virtual counter-site in which temporal concepts of reality, presence, identity and language are simultaneously represented and inverted.