Graduate Student, School of Arts & Social Sciences
Thesis Title: The Eye in Motion: Visual Technology and Perception in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
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Dr Peter Garratt
Dr David Stewart |
About
In January 2011, I joined Northumbria University's postgraduate department as a PhD research student, having previously studied at the University of Hull (BA) and the University of Leeds (MA).
My research centres on cultures of visuality in the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth century. Specifically, I am investigating the reception and consumption of moving image technologies (such as the zoetrope, praxinoscope, and kinetoscope) and tracing their representation in popular print media and the novel. Rather than see these optical gadgets as mere stepping stones on the pathway to the invention of cinema, my research looks specifically at inventions in moving image technology from 1834 to 1895 in order to understand the role of these visual devices in a culture fascinated by optical expansion, malfunction, and manipulation. By considering their impact on modes of spectatorship and the mechanisation of the senses, my research questions the privileged position of cinema as a new technology which uniquely embodied modernity and asks if this marker of a modern visual consciousness might not be reconsidered and extended back into the nineteenth century.
I contribute review annotations for Routledge ABES.
I am currently involved in co-organising the North East Postgraduate Research Group for the Long Nineteenth Century: www.northeast19thcentury.org
For details of an upcoming onference which I am co-organising at Northumbria University, 28-29 May 2012, on the topic of 'Transforming Objects', please see www.transformingobjects.blogspot.com
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