Angela Lait has completed all her studying as a mature student alongside a career in journalism, corporate communications, PR, media relations and publishing for UK central government. She developed an awareness of the emerging voices of the sociall
...MoreAngela Lait has completed all her studying as a mature student alongside a career in journalism, corporate communications, PR, media relations and publishing for UK central government. She developed an awareness of the emerging voices of the socially marginalised from studying Literature at Essex University (1988) where she gained First-Class Honours degree. The themes of class, identity, insecurity, and lack of voice have proved to be an enduring focus, which began with a project on speech failure in The Language of the Early Plays of Harold Pinter.
After a fifteen-year break she took a Masters’ degree with Distinction in Contemporary Literary Studies at Lancaster University (2005) which revived her interest in peripheral voices and culminated in a Dissertation entitled Coping with Trauma: Conflict, Character and Creativity in the Work of Pat Barker. In this she examined how language and structure disclose the challenge to hegemony posed by the marginal voice of the class-transitional character. Her doctoral thesis The Search for Solace in Late-Capitalist Literature further explored aspects of self-narration, this time in a workplace context (2008). Her academic interests have always located literature in a comparative and inter-disciplinary context.
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