PhD Thesis

How nostalgia functions in contemporary politics and its impact on cultural imagination and critical thinking.

Supervisor: Paulo De Mederios

My thesis centres on the rise of nostalgia in 21st century politics and how this effects critical, historical and cultural thinking. Using critical theory as my primary material, I aim to explain the shift to nostalgia and why looking to the future now means looking to the past for UK and US politics.

Conference Papers

Catolica University, Lisbon 2023: “The Time is out of Joint”: Post Pandemic Hauntology and The Ghosts of Revolution.

Gdansk University 2023: Nostalgia for place, “Solastalgia” and the rise of right wing nationalism in the West.

Mannheim University 2024: The Weird and the Eerie: The Rise of British Nationalism and its Occultist Roots.

Falmouth University 2024: Welcome to the Post-scandal Age: Rethinking history and engaging with the present in a time out of joint.

MA: University of Warwick - Critical and Cultural Theory

BA: Liverpool John Moores University - English and Creative Writing

Teaching

24/25 - EN122 Modes of Reading: Theoretical frameworks and methodologies for reading and interpreting literary and cultural texts.

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Email:

louisa.toxvaerd-munch@warwick.ac.uk