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Hilary White is an Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow at Maynooth University’s Department of English. Her current project, Forms of Sleep: Literary Experiments in Somnolence, explores sleep-centric literature from modernist to contemporary works, interrogating intersections between experimental writing and sleep science. She holds a PhD from the University of Manchester (2021) for research on visuality in 1960s-70s experimental novels.
Research interests focus on literary formalism, sleep studies, and critiques of productivity culture. Her method combines close textual analysis with interdisciplinary approaches to understand subjective sleep experiences beyond technological measurements. Key projects include tracing sleep’s representation from 1920s modernism (e.g., Djuna Barnes, James Joyce) to contemporary works like Shola von Reinhold’s Lote.
Awards include the prestigious IRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (2023-2025). Publications include a monograph on visual modernism (The Visual Novel, 2021) and co-edited collections on literary gestures. Her work bridges literary analysis with broader cultural debates about sleep’s societal valuation.
