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Professor Abbie Garrington holds the position of Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature in the Department of English Studies at Durham University. She serves as Associate Director of the DurhamARCTIC research centre and is a Fellow of the Institute for Medical Humanities, with significant contributions to interdisciplinary scholarship bridging literary studies, sensory theory, and environmental humanities.
Her educational background includes:
- MA (Hons) from the University of Edinburgh
- PhD from the University of Edinburgh
Professor Garrington's research centers on modernist literature (c.1890-1945), with pioneering work in sensory studies—particularly haptic perception and gestural expression. She investigates mountain landscapes in modernist writing, polar expedition narratives, and contemporary autofiction, examining how literature renders bodily experience in extreme environments. Her scholarship reveals profound connections between tactile sensation, attention mechanisms, and cultural representations of the human body.
Recent publications demonstrate an evolving trajectory from foundational haptic theory to expansive interdisciplinary inquiries into material cultures of mountaineering and polar exploration. Her work consistently bridges historical modernist contexts with contemporary sensory studies, emphasizing how physical environments shape literary imagination and bodily agency.
Her scientific recognition includes:
- Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2013-2014)
- AHRC Doctoral Award (University of Edinburgh)
- IASTH Postdoctoral Fellowship (Edinburgh)
- Visiting Research Fellowship at IASH, University of Edinburgh (2014-2015)
- 2nd Prize for Mountain Writing (2011)
Professor Garrington actively mentors doctoral candidates and early-career researchers, supervising seven PhD students in areas spanning modernist sensory studies, mountain writing, and contemporary autofiction. Her research has been supported by substantial grants including the Leverhulme Research Fellowship for High Modernism: A Literary History of Mountaineering, 1890-1945, AHRC Care for the Future funding for The Hero Project, and multiple Durham University impact development awards.
She leads collaborative initiatives through the DurhamARCTIC research centre and the Institute for Medical Humanities, developing projects like the BBC Proms podcast 'Mountains' and the 'Scaling the Heights' exhibition at the Oriental Museum, which toured nationally with Arts Council England support.
