Janet Mathieson
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Email
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Location
Colchester Campus
Research and professional activities
Thesis
Experimental novel
I am writing an experimental autofictional narrative about cancer, told through the prism of a carer. In doing so, I seek to create a new discourse about cancer. Using the biological as a compositional tool, I also see my project as an interface between art and science. My creative practice is underpinned by some of the theories of Julia Kristeva including those which pertain to abjection, subjectivity, poetic language, women, care and disability.
Supervisor: Holly Pester
Research interests
Narrativsation of disease
Care, illness narratives, clinicalisation, narrative medicine, writing as processing, therapeutic writing, autofiction, experimental writing, the theories of Julia Kristeva.