Dr Sasha Garwood
An interdisciplinary scholar with an English Literature background and social history expertise, Sasha researches gender, sex and the body as a nexus of cultural anxieties, from the early modern period to the present day.
Her first book, Early Modern English Noblewomen and Self-Starvation, examined female food refusal during the early modern period, its literary representations, and its precise differentiation from the modern phenomenon of eating disorders, the first interdisciplinary study of its kind.
Now, her ongoing research interests include gendered embodiment and food behaviour; the history of emotions; gender, embodiment, and sexuality in Edwardian fiction; the Earl of Rochester; E.F. Benson; and hidden queer lives in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Currently, she is focused on queer masculinities in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and writing a book about E.F. Benson and George Wolfe Plank.
She studied at University College London and Keble College Oxford.
Sasha is represented by Sarah Stamp at the Soho Agency