Graduate Student, English
University of Essex, Literature, Film and Theatre Studies
University of Essex, Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies
University of Oxford, English
PhD student
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Robert Kern
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About
PhD student in English, Boston College, 2011-
I am currently undertaking coursework and preparing for an interdisciplinary minor field exam which will be titled "Contemporary Fiction: Navigating Place and Placelessness"
I am interested in the related concepts of placelessness, displacement and exile and how these are translated and/or mapped onto the landscapes and environments described in the late twentieth century and contemporary novel. Within this broadly defined area, topics of particular interest to me are: non-places and supermodernity; modern ruins; immigrant fiction; and dislocation as trauma.
MA Myth, Literature and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, 2010
BA English Language and Literature, University of Oxford, 2008.
