Suzannah V. Evans

• English, Durham University
• Email: suzannah.v.evans@durham.ac.uk

My doctoral thesis, provisionally entitled ‘Hearing Laforgue in T. S. Eliot,’ investigates T. S. Eliot’s prolonged engagement with the writing of the avant-garde French poet Jules Laforgue. Grounded in close readings of Eliot’s poetry and criticism, this will be the first full-length study to assess Laforgue’s role in shaping Eliot’s poetic voice, challenging scholars to reconceive the transnational acoustics of modernism. I hope to examine how transcultural and multilingual exchange are crucial to the development of avant-garde poetry in the twentieth century.

https://www.dur.ac.uk/english.studies/postgrad/researchstudents/?id=17218

Supervisory Team: Prof. Jason Harding, English Studies (Durham), Dr Sam Bootle, Modern Languages and Cultures (Durham).

Start Date: October 2017