Writing Happiness

Kirsty Martin, Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Exeter

Kirsty Martin is an Associate Professor in English Literature at the University of Exeter. Her first book, Modernism and the Rhythms of Sympathy, was published in 2013. She works primarily on literature, emotion, and medicine, and has written articles on topics ranging from shyness in literature, to sunlight therapy and modernism, to post-natal depression in the work of D. H. Lawrence. She joined Exeter in 2012, after completing her undergraduate and postgraduate study at the University of Oxford.