Stacy Gillis

• Senior Lecturer in Modern & Contemporary Literature School of English Literature, Language & Linguistics

Dr Stacy Gillis is Senior Lecturer in Modern & Contemporary Literature in the School of English Literature, Language & Linguistics.  Her research interests lie at the intersections of feminist theory, theories of the body, and popular cultural and intellectual histories, with a focus on pleasure, desire, embodiment and phenomenology across the long twentieth century.  She has published widely on early twentieth-century British popular culture, including several pieces on the First World War.  She has received an AHRC grant for a project on women, leisure and the North East during the First World War, and Leverhulme funding for a project about popular writing for children and the First World War.  Current research interests about the First World War include thinking about disability and desire in the work of Elinor Glyn during the war, and leisure activities along Hadrian’s Wall during wartime.