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Kirstin’s AHRC funded doctoral research is focussed on the interface between text and image through an assessment of “little magazines”. She is working specifically on the journal Experiment published in Cambridge between 1928 and 1931, with a view to re-examining the Surrealist movement in England.

Kirstin’s research covers a broad spectrum of subjects typically associated with the Surrealist movement in France: Literature, Art, Film, Photography, Science, and Politics. Her thesis attempts to reclaim these categories for a specifically English history of Surrealism, through an extensive analysis of the journal Experiment; its form, content, and complex matrix of contributors, many of whom came to represent the British intelligentsia in the late twentieth-century.