Michelle is an AHRC-funded PhD researcher in the American and Canadian Studies department at the University of Nottingham. Her current research examines representations of fatness and ÒobesityÓ in late twentieth-century and twenty-first century North American fiction. MichelleÕs wider interests include medical moral panics, gender and genre theory, and contemporary Anglo-American writing. She is a former co-editor of U.S. Studies Online (2014-2016) and continues to run the feature #bookhour. She is also the web editorial assistant for the British Association for American Studies (BAAS), and the web editor for the European Association for American Studies (EAAS) and the European Journal of American Studies (EJAS).
You’re stranded on a desert island, but luckily you pre-empted it. Which book do you take with you?
“I would invest in a poetry collection because novels ‘end’ — Imagine reaching the last page of a novel without rescue in sight. Grim.
With that in mind, H.D.’s Trilogy or the aptly titled edited collection, Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times.”