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natalie.ilsley@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

Natalie Ilsley is a Ph.D. student in English and American Studies at the University of Manchester (2018-2022). She researches postcolonial and feminist theory, as well as theories of resilience, and co-directs New Voices in Postcolonial Studies, a multi-disciplinary research network for postgraduates. At the MLC Research Centre, supported by the UK-Canada Globalink Doctoral Exchange Scheme (Mitacs and UKRI), Natalie is a Doctoral Research Fellow studying and collaborating with the onsite supervisor Dr. Irene Gammel with a focus on the pandemic. Her MITACs resarch project is focussed on "Locating Trauma Through Resilience: Accessing Marginalized Narratives in a Global Pandemic." Natalie also holds an M.Sc. in International and European Politics (2018) from the University of Edinburgh and a B.A. (Honours) in English Literature (2015) from Keele University. 

Doctoral Dissertation

Ilsley, Natalie. “Building Resilience in Stoke-on-Trent, UK: Arts-Based Methods with Refugees and Asylum-Seeking Women.” PhD in English and American Studies. School of Arts, Languages and Cultures. University of Manchester (2018-2022). Supervisor: Anastasia Valassopoulos. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC, UK).

Selected Scholarly Publications

Ilsley, Natalie. “A Case Against Abandoning Resilience: Loosening the Grip on Neoliberalism and Reorienting the Study of Resilience.” Review of Global Narratives of Resilience, edited by Ana María Fraile-Marcos. Postcolonial Studies, 15 Oct. 2020. Taylor & Francis, doi:10.1080/13688790.2020.1832212.

Selected Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers

Ilsley, Natalie. “The Role of the Arts in Accessing and Mobilising Narratives of Displacement.” Reimaging Migration Narratives: Oxford Migration Conference 2020. University of Oxford, 1 June 2020 via Zoom. All articles published online on Routed Magazine.

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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

Life writing, including autobiographical accounts, diaries, letters and testimonials written or told by women and men whose political, literary or philosophical purposes are central to their lives, has become a standard tool for communication and the dissemination of information.