Isabel Rolfe
Doctoral Student in Literature - Isabel’s thesis is entitled ‘Modernism and the Psychoanalytic Occult: Exacting the Feminist Revenge Narrative’.
Research Project Title:
Modernism and the Psychoanalytic Occult: Exacting the Feminist Revenge Narrative
Supervisors:
Dr Stacy Gillis and Dr Robbie McLaughlan
Contact Details:
Email: i.rolfe2@newcastle.ac.uk
Research Interests:
- Decadence
- Modernism
- Psychoanalysis
- Feminism
- The occult
- Literary consciousness
- Spatiality
Brief Outline of Research Project:
This project posits the existence of a collective feminine unconscious, exploring the occult as a medium through which to create revenge fiction. It explores the intertwined origins of psychoanalysis with the occult, and centres overlooked female voices, tracing this idea throughout decadence and modernism.