Elizabeth Floyd
Elizabeth Floyd completed her PhD in English at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) in 2019. Her dissertation examines the physical reconstruction of London after WWII, the government's attempts to create a modernized middle class through space and public architecture, and the reaction to this project through "middlebrow" literature of the period. Her work analyzes realist novels, film, architecture and design, and archival materials from the late 1940s until the mid-1960s. She is currently working on a second project on the depictions of health care in British literature after the formation of the NHS in 1948 and its relationship to working and middle class labor. She is also interested in late modernism, aesthetics, gender, social class, and national constructs.
Originally from Los Angeles, Elizabeth received a B.A. in English from U.C. Berkeley and spent a year abroad at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. She has a M.A. in English Literature from Michigan State University. Her master's thesis, “The Dark Jungle: Noir in the (De)Colonial Landscape,” discussed the relationship between noir aesthetics, decolonization, and masculinity in British novels by Graham Greene, J.G. Ballard, and Ian Fleming.
Originally from Los Angeles, Elizabeth received a B.A. in English from U.C. Berkeley and spent a year abroad at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. She has a M.A. in English Literature from Michigan State University. Her master's thesis, “The Dark Jungle: Noir in the (De)Colonial Landscape,” discussed the relationship between noir aesthetics, decolonization, and masculinity in British novels by Graham Greene, J.G. Ballard, and Ian Fleming.
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