Waterman

 

MA in Poetry and Poetics, University of York
BA in English, Stanford University

 

 

In my PhD dissertation “I.A. Richards: Nexus of Modernity, 1918-1960,” I reevaluate the ideas of the literary theorist, educator, and public intellectual I.A. Richards in historical terms, specifically in relation to literary Modernism and the legacy of Romanticism; Cambridge secular humanism; and the shifting foundations of 20 th -century science (specifically neurophysiology and physics). I also consider Richards’s investment in East Asian philosophy in relation to his aesthetics and his social and ethical commitments. I aim to uncover what unites the varied threads of Richards’s intellectual capaciousness – the transcultural and interdisciplinary dimensions of his thought – and to relate this unity (or unities) to his historical moment.

 

 

2022-23 Buckner W. Clay Fellow of the UVa Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures (IHGC). Award supported dissertation-related research at the I.A. Richards Collection at the University of Miami’s Special Collections.

 

2022 UVa English Department grant supported dissertation-related research at the I.A. Richards Collection at Magdalene College Old Library, Cambridge University.

 

Conferences
 
Poetics of Faith Conference, University of York. Presentation: “Science and the Poetry of Belief: Rediscovering Dante through the Lens of I.A. Richards,” January 13, 2018.

 

 

Modernism, poetry and poetics, interdisciplinarity, global literary studies, history of literary criticism, bibliography and textual criticism