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Lola Boorman

Biography

Lola was appointed as a Lecturer in American Literature and Culture in 2021. Before this she was an Associate Lecturer in the Department where she also completed her Wolfson Foundation-funded PhD in 2020. Her doctoral project was also supported by a Fulbright scholarship to complete a research fellowship at Stanford University in 2018.

Lola’s research interests include 20th and 21st century American writing, literary institutions, the intersections between literature and linguistics, the short story form, the essay (both literary and filmic), African American film and literature, and contemporary film. Her current research focuses on the role of grammar in 20th century American literature through the work of Gertrude Stein, Fran Ross, Lydia Davis, and David Foster Wallace. In particular, her research looks at how institutional, cultural, philosophical, and formal ideas about grammar interact with questions of authority, democracy, race, gender, and American national identity.

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Department of English and Related Literature
University of York
Heslington
York
YO10 5DD

Tel: +44 (0)1904 324716