Department of English
Blythe Waite
MA, Philosophy and English Literature, University of Edinburgh, 2017, MA, English and American Literature, New York University, 2023
Research Interests
Romanticism, Postcolonial Studies, History of Science and Technology, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Media Studies, Poetry and Poetics, Science Fiction
Biography
Currently I’m researching the depiction of Latin America on the British stage in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in relation to resource extraction, as well as, separately, ideas of ethical relation to others that emerge through engagement with scientific concepts in Shelley’s poetry. More broadly I’m interested in the relationship between how media is disseminated and its ability to perpetuate or critique narratives of nation and empire, in a long-view of romanticism that considers writing from the “Age of Revolution” to contemporary science fiction and video games.