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Katie Hall is a Ph.D. student in Creative Writing with focus on practice-based research at Kingston University, London (2019-2025). Her practice centres on queer feminist writing methods and friendship, and she researches writing as knowing within a queer feminist context. Katie Hall is also interested in decolonizing the curriculum, widening participation and the role of undergraduate research within the Higher Education curriculum. At the MLC Research Centre, supported by the UK-Canada Globalink Doctoral Exchange Scheme (Mitacs and UKRI), Katie Hall is a Doctoral Research Fellow studying and collaborating with the onsite supervisor Dr. Irene Gammel with a focus on  “Confessional Knowing: A Critically Queer Reading of Friendships in the Letters and Journals of Modernist Women.” She also holds an M.A. (with merit) in Writing (2019) and B.A. (Honours) in English Literature (2001) from the University of Warwick.

Doctoral Thesis:

Hall, Katie. “Queer as Friends: rewriting the platonic-romantic relationship binary between women / Writing as knowing: locating creative nonfiction in queer feminist knowledge creation”. PhD in Creative Writing. School of Art. Kingston University. (2019-2025). Supervisors: Dr Martin Dines and Dr Helen Palmer. Funded by the Techne Doctoral Training Partnership, Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC, UK).

Publications:

Hall, Katie Margaret. “New Orleans to Vancouver: A Railway Journey,” in Tymes Goe By Turnes, edited by Cherry Potts (London: Arachne, 2020).

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The Great War in Literature and Visual Culture

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The Great War in Literature and Visual Culture

Amid the unprecedented social change of World War I, women renegotiated their identities by dramatically changing the way they engaged with the arts. But how did they do so? And how did everyday citizens engage with the war?
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

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Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, considered by many to be the mother of Dada, was a daringly innovative poet and an early creator of junk sculpture. “The Baroness” was best known for her sexually charged, often controversial performances.
Modernism in the World

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Modernism in the World

Recent research has departed from the Euro-centric and national view of Modernism to include approaches and methods studying Modernism across national boundaries and across different art forms to include fashion, dance, performance, technology, and visual culture.
Lucy Maud Montgomery

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Lucy Maud Montgomery

L.M. Montgomery is perhaps Canada's most important literary export. She was prolific writer of over 500 short stories and poems, and twenty novels, including the beloved Anne of Green Gables.
Canadian Modernism

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Canadian Modernism

The works of numerous Canadian authors who lived during the modernist era may well constitute the most central and experimental articulation of Canadian modernism in prose, allowing authors to stage cross-cultural, controversial, and even conflicted identities.
Modernist Biography and Life Writing

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Modernist Biography and Life Writing

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