Daniela Lillhannus has completed her half-term seminar
Our warmest congratulations to Daniela Lillhannus a WOMHER PhD student at the Department of Literature and Rhetoric, for a well-executed half-term seminar.
Danielas project explores the ways in which ghosts and haunting are used to depict women’s experiences of rape-related trauma in a selection of American and Nordic contemporary novels (1996 to 2018). The 1990s saw a rapid growth in trauma research in psychology as well as in cultural theory and during the same period, trauma increasingly appeared as a theme in literary fiction published. This study focuses on a category of trauma fiction in which women who have been subjected to raped experience a sensation of inhabiting a position between life and death. A consequence is invisibility, isolation and a lost sense of self, sensations that play a significant role in how trauma is depicted in these stories.
The project is supervised by Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed.