Dr Vike Martina Plock
Research Interests
- Literary Modernism
- James Joyce
- Literature and Science
- Women's Writing
- Consumer Culture
Vike's research focuses on literary modernism and the cultural history of modernity. She has published widely on James Joyce and specifically on Joyce's lifelong interest in medicine and science. Her first monograph Joyce, Medicine, and Modernity was published in 2010 by the University Press of Florida (paperback, 2012) and she recently edited a special issue of the journal James Joyce Quarterly on the subject of Joyce and physiology.
Vike's current research takes a slightly different approach to the study of literary modernism. She is in the process of writing a research monograph on the centrality of fashion as a cultural force and discourse in the works of early twentieth-century women novelists such as Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, Elizabeth Bowen, M. J. Farrell, Rosamond Lehmann, and Agatha Christie. An article on Elizabeth Bowen and fashion is forthcoming in Modernism/Modernity. Due to her current work on fashion and literature, Vike has also developed an interest in middlebrow literature and culture and its contentious relationship with literary modernism.
Her articles have appeared in Journal of Modern Literature, Literature & History, James Joyce Quarterly, Joyce Studies Annual, and Literature Compass, and she has been a reader for PMLA, James Joyce Quarterly, Modernism/Modernity, Journal of Design History, and Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas.
She is co-editor of the peer-reviewed journal Literature & History published biannually by Manchester University Press and a member of the executive committee of the British Society for Literature and Science.
Research Supervision
Vike welcomes enquiries from research students with interests in James Joyce, literary modernism, women's writings, middlebrow literature and culture, and literature and science.
Research Students
James Bernthal, "Queering the Outcase in Agatha Christie" (AHRC) (First Supervisor)
Rinni Haji-Amran, "Modernist Literature and Aviation" (First Supervisor)
Sarah-Louise Hopkins, "Ghosts, Trauma and the Sublime in Victorian and Contemporary Literature (AHRC) (First Supervisor)
Elizabeth Micakovic, "T. S. Eliot's Voices" (AHRC) (First Supervisor)
