Samraghni Bonnerjee
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Samraghni Bonnerjee
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My thesis is titled 'Nursing Politics and the Body in First World War Life-Writing'. I read published and unpublished diaries and memoirs of trained and volunteer Anglophone nurses of the First World War. My thesis is rooted in the genre of Life Writing and takes a Medical Humanities approach. It offers an affective reading of representations of bodies in the writings of these nurses, connecting the relationship between the wounded bodies tended to by the nurses with their own quivering bodies close to the Front. It also examines anxieties centred around discourses of miscegenation and eugenics when treating wounded Indian soldiers. |
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Publications• ‘The Home and the World: War-Torn Landscape and Literary Imagination of a Bengali Military Doctor in Mesopotamia During World War I’ in Landscapes of the First World War, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018 (forthcoming). • ‘“It Still Haunts Me”: Trauma and Shell Shock in the Writings of the Nurses of the First World War’ in Trans Atlantic Shell Shock: British and American Literatures of World War One Trauma, University of North Georgia Press, 2018 (forthcoming). Conference Presentations• ‘“The Lure of War”: British Nurses and Their March to the Front’ at “Women in the public space 1800-1939: Great Britain, Ireland, Empire and Commonwealth” Conference organised by Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France, September 29, 2017. • ‘“Sister You’re Hurtin’ Me!”: Pain and Affect in the Writings of the Nurses of the First World War’ at UK Association for the History of Nursing (UKAHN) annual conference, University of Huddersfield, June 28, 2017. • ‘Living as Dissent: Taslima Nasreen’s Autobiographies and the Anatomy of Protest’, at ‘Subaltern Women’s Narratives: Subversion, Resilience, and Shifting Responses’, HRI, University of Sheffield, June 23, 2017. • ‘“They Passed Through Our Hands”: Touch, Sensuality and Affect in the Writings of the Nurses of the First World War’ at ‘Medicine and the Senses’ Conference, University of Leeds, June 1, 2017. • ‘From Kaiserswerth to the Crimea: Florence Nightingale and the Shared Histories of British and German Nursing’ in the Nineteenth Century at German Historical Institute, London PhD Conference, 12--13 January 2017. • ‘The Traveller as the Humanitarian: The Travels and Experiences of Bridget Talbot and Millicent Sutherland in Inter-War Europe’ for the 'Travellers, Tourism, and Objects Conference' organised by Yorkshire Country House Partnership, University of York, September 10, 2016. • ‘An English Nurse at the Russian Front: Florence Farmborough’s Encounters in the Eastern Front Through Writings and Photographs’ at ‘Beyond the Western Front—The Global First World War’ conference organised by the Centre for Hidden Histories: Community, Commemoration and the First World War’ at University of Nottingham on July 1, 2016. • ‘The Second Battlefield: Nurses and Wounded Male Bodies in First World War Memoirs’ at Humanities Postgraduate Symposium, Claus Moser Research Centre, Keele University, June 14, 2016. • ‘Family and Performance in the Front: Reconstituting the Fantasy of the Family in Front Hospitals by German War Nurses’ at ‘First World War: Nursing’ conference organised by Women’s History Network and held at the University of Worcester on November 21, 2015. • ‘Patriotism and Pacifism: Contrasting Motivations for Front Nursing among German and British Nurses of the First World War’ at ‘Women, Gender and the First World War’ conference held at the University of Portsmouth on October 10, 2015. • ‘The Home and the World: War-Torn Landscape and Literary Imagination of a Bengali Military Doctor in Mesopotamia During World War I’ at ‘Landscapes of the Great War’ conference organised by the International Society for First World War Studies in Trento and Padova on September 10—12, 2015. Seminars and invited lectures• '“This Country is Rotten”: Australian Nurses in India during World War I and Their Encounters with Race and Nationhood', 'Scaling Australia' Seminar Series, Menzies Centre, King's College London, December 2017. • '“Weak, hideous, repellent”: Grotesque Bodies, Grotesque Faces and Filthy Wounds in the Writings of the Nurses of the First World War', Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM), University of Manchester, May 2017. • 'Healing and Containment as Service: Nurses of the First World War at Home and Abroad', Nottingham Women's History Group, April 2017. • 'The Second Battlefield: Writing the Woman’s Body in War', Legacies of War Seminar Series, University of Leeds, November 2016. Professional associationsInternational Society for First World War Studies |
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