Violet Hatch, Lucy Cavendish
Course: English
Supervisor: Dr Lisa Mullen
Dissertation Title:
This is the British Broadcasting Company Calling': Modernist Boundaries of the Radio Imagination at the BBC 1922-67This is the British Broadcasting Company Calling': Modernist Boundaries of the Radio Imagination at the BBC 1922-67
Biographical Information
Before coming to Cambridge, I studied for a BA in English and Related literature at the University of York and an MA in Modern and Contemporary literature at UCL.
Research Interests
My PhD will explore how national identity is defined through literature broadcast on or influenced by BBC radio between 1922-67. My research will examine how sound is able to traverse geographical boundaries that characterize the UK, which writers attempted to overcome through transmissions over radio. Writers of interest in my work include, but are not limited to: T.S. Eliot, W.B Yeats, Marion Angus, W.H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Una Marson, John Betjeman, Dylan Thomas, Stevie Smith, Louis MacNeice and Samuel Beckett. I am interested in how these writers imagine, or reimagine ways in which England's cultural dominance is asserted through their own multifaceted national and regional identites. I will examine these writers works whilst simultaneously considering their time spent working at the BBC and exploring connections between them in their respective social, literary circles.
