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Dr Frankie Dytor (they/them) is a British Academy-funded Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of English and Creative Writing at the University of Exeter. Their research operates at the intersections of art history, literature, and trans studies, with a primary focus on queer and trans aesthetics, life practices, and worldmaking in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Dr Dytor's educational background includes:
- BA and MPhil from the University of Cambridge
- PhD in History of Art from the University of Cambridge (2023)
- Hanseatic Scholar at the University of Hamburg during doctoral studies
Current research centers on the book project Renaissance Lives: Decadent Aesthetes and the Queer Practices of Art History, 1880-1930, which investigates aesthetic encounters with Italian Renaissance culture through scrapbooks, interior design, performance, fashion, and lifewriting. Their upcoming project Aestheticism, Sexology, and the Making of Trans Feeling, 1870-1930 examines reciprocal relationships between sexual science and visual arts in Britain, aiming to document the first account of trans aestheticism and recover its influence on early sexology.
Scientific Awards
- British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship
Dr Dytor's research has received substantial support from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, Newton Trust, Lander Trust, Alfred Toepfer Foundation, British Association for Victorian Studies, Association for Art History, and Cambridge Society of Paris. Prior to their Exeter appointment, they served as a research assistant for Dr Lucy Ella Rose at the University of Surrey and are represented by literary agency Greene & Heaton.
