Biography
After gaining a BA from the University of Toronto and a Ph.D. from University College London, I worked initially at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge before coming to King's in 2003. I was Head of Department between 2020 and 2022.
Research Interests
- Virginia Woolf
- Modernist women writers
- Modernism and colonialism
- Literary sound studies
I would be interested in hearing from prospective doctoral students in any of these areas or modernism more broadly.
I am currently on a Leverhulme Fellowship working on a monograph entitled, 'Noisescapes: Writing Sound in Interwar Britain'. My edited volume, Sound and Literature, was published with Cambridge University Press in 2020. I am co-organising a major conference on 'Sounding Modernism' at King's in June 2023.
My previous major publications include a scholarly edition of Woolf's The Years for the Cambridge University Press Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf, a monograph, Modernist Voyages: Colonial Women Writers in London 1890-1945 (CUP), which was shortlisted for the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize, and an edition of A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas for Oxford World's Classics.
Teaching
I teach modules on Virginia Woolf, modernism, and literary soundscapes.
Expertise and Public Engagement
- Member of the Editorial Board of Modernism/modernity
- Member of the Editorial Board of Woolf Studies Annual
- Former member of the AHRC Peer Review College
- I gave the 2019 Annual Lecture at the Centre for Modernist Cultures, University of Birmingham
- Contributor to 'The Noisy Page' (Radio 4) produced by Cathy FitzGerald
- Keynote Speaker at ‘Virginia Woolf and the Writing of History’, Université de Rouen, 2018
- Speaker at Virginia Woolf Exhibition, Tate St. Ives, 2018
- Collaboration with Deborah Pearson on ‘The Filibuster’, a 12-hour durational performance by female-identified actors, as part of Somerset House’s, Arts in Society series
- Keynote Speaker at 'Virginia Woolf and the World of Books', University of Reading, 2017
- 2017 Member of the New Modernist Editing Network (PI Bryony Randall, University of Glasgow
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Snaith, A., 30 Sep 2022, The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism and Technology. Goody, A. & Whittington, I. (eds.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Snaith, A., 12 Oct 2021, The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf. Fernald, A. (ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Snaith, A. L., Jun 2020, The Edinburgh Companion to Literature and Music. da Sousa Correa, D. (ed.). Edinburgh University Press, p. 558-564 7 p. Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Snaith, A. (ed.), Jun 2020, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 438 p. (Cambridge Critical Concepts) Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108855532
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Snaith, A. L., 1 Jan 2020, The Cambridge History of Black and Asian Writing. Nasta, S. & Stein, M. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, p. 116-131 (Cambridge History). Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Snaith, A. L., 1 Dec 2019, In: CRITICAL INQUIRY. 64, 4 Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Snaith, A., May 2019, In: LITERATURE AND HISTORY. 28, 1, p. 10-26 17 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1177/0306197319829353
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Snaith, A., 14 Jun 2018, The Handbook to the Bloomsbury Group. Ryan, D. & Ross, S. (eds.). London: Bloomsbury Academic, p. 94-108 Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Snaith, A. L., 2016, In: Modernism-Modernity. 23, 2, p. 478-480 Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
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Snaith, A. L., 2016, A Companion to Virginia Woolf. Berman, J. (ed.). Oxford: WILEY-BLACKWELL, p. 137-150 Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review