Modernism’s Suicidal Impulse: Psychic Contamination and the Crowd

Katheryn Ryan
English
UC Irvine

Katherine Ryan is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of English at UC Irvine. Her scholarly interests include Anglo-American Modernist fiction and poetry, theories of affect, and histories of mental illness. Her dissertation project explores the psychic effects of urban crowding in relation to fantasy and autonomy within interwar modernist literature.