Dr Izzy Jenkinson

Profile

I plan, organise and deliver events for the Faculty of Social Sciences. Such events for which I am responsible are staff inductions, Faculty Inaugural Lectures, staff and PGR social events, and colleague training days. My role sees me organise the administrative and logistical side of these events and it sees me market and promote them to relevant audiences. 

My role also sees me support the Faculty Communications Manager in the delivery of the faculty’s Communications and Engagement strategy. 

Prior to this role, I worked as a School Support Officer (Events) in the School of Politics and International Studies, during which I provided logistical and promotional support for the School’s research activity and events.

 

Research interests

I graduated with my PhD in English Literature from the School of English at University of Leeds in July 2024. Alongside my professional responsibilities detailed above, I maintain independent, academic research interests in the following areas:

• D.H. Lawrence
• Modernist and Victorian Prose Fiction
• Ethics and the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas 
• Literary Representations of Violence and Intimacy
• Literary Representations and Theoretical Conceptions of Selfhood and Otherness
• Critical Theory 

Publications and Conference Papers

Articles

Isabelle Jenkinson, ‘Echo Compulsion: Formative Trauma in Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s Venus im Pelz’, MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities, 15 (2021), 20-28, https://www.mhra.org.uk/publications/wph-15. 

Reviews

Isabelle Jenkinson, review of Exhausted Ecologies: Modernism and Environmental Recovery (2020) by Andrew Kalaidjian, James Joyce Broadsheet, 115 (2020), 2.

Isabelle Jenkinson, review of Affective Materialities: Reorienting the Body in Modernist Literature (2019) ed. by Kara Watts, Molly Volanth Hall and Robin Hackett, The Modernist Review, https://modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2021/04/29/book-review-affective-materialities/. 

Conference Papers

Isabelle Jenkinson ‘“What were after all but bruises!”: The Ungraspability of Pain in The Prussian Officer and Other Stories’ at Following The Affective Turn (Postgraduate Symposium), 13-17 September (2021)

Qualifications

• 2019 - 2024 - PhD in English Literature at University of Leeds
• 2018 - 2019 - Distinction in MA English Literature at University of Leeds
• 2015 - 2018 - First Class BA in English Literature at University of Leeds