Postgraduate Profile

Ms Morgan Long

PhD Candidate, School of Humanities & Social Science

Faculty/Division: Education and Arts
Discipline: English
Email: morgan.long@uon.edu.au

Current Research

PhD Thesis (working) title:  The Anonymous Voice: The Influence of the Fantastic in Nineteenth Century Russian 'Realism' on the Representation of Character in Anglo-American Modernism
Supervisors: Dr Jesper Guldall and Dr Caroline Webb

Abstract:
Through close analysis, I plan to trace the influence of key authors and texts in what is conventionally called nineteenth century Russian Realism on the development of Modernist introspective character.  The aim of my thesis is to reveal the way in which the 'fantastic' elements of Russian Realism proved to be foundational in the narrative turn inward, in both thematic and conventional terms, in Anglo-American Modernism's representation of character.  Key to this influence will be the "anonymous voice," a previously hidden, truthful voice, which arises as a result of the 'fantastic.'

Academic Background

• 2013 - PHD Candidature
• 2011 - Bachelor of Arts (Honours) with Honours Class One
  Honours Thesis:  The Masculine Wound and the Crisis of American Identity in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1926), Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises (1926), and John Fante's Ask the Dust (1939)
• 2010 - Bachelor of Arts

Awards

• Australian Postgraduate Award Research Higher Degree Scholarship (2013-)
• 2011 Faculty of Education & Arts Faculty Medal (English)