Dr Anna Girling is an Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow in Twentieth-Century English and American Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Anna completed her PhD at Edinburgh in 2022, with a thesis on Edith Wharton, cosmopolitanism, gay male literature and literary decadence. She has an MA in English and Modern History from the University of St. Andrews and an MA in English Literature from York University in Toronto and has previously been an Early Career Fellow at the Institute for English Studies (School of Advanced Study, University of London), a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Brighton, and an Eccles Centre Fellow at the British Library.
I am interested in the literary representation and theorisation of community, and the relationship between politics, gender and literary form, in writing from across the twentieth century, and I am currently working on the anti-colonial and anti-fascist writings of the writer, publisher, editor and activist, Nancy Cunard.