Biography:
Frankie Dytor is a PhD student at Pembroke College working under the supervision of Professor Caroline van Eck. Her work looks at the afterlife of the renaissance in criticism, fiction and performance, c.1850 - 1914
She obtained her BA (double first) and MPhil (distinction, funded by the Newton Trust) at Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
Her doctoral research is funded by the AHRC-Lander Studentship. From September 2020 to August 2021, Frankie will be a visiting scholar at the Universität Hamburg, funded by a Hanseatic Scholarship from the Alfred Toepfer Foundation.
Research Interests
- Object Biography
- Theories of Agency and Embodiment
- History of Gender and Sexuality, incl. sexology
- Aestheticism and Decadence
- Figures including Michael Field, Natalie Barney, Maud Cruttwell, Alexander Sacharoff, Aby Warburg, Vernon Lee