Charlotte Xiaou Wu is a doctoral candidate in the English / Medical Humanities departments at King’s College London, and part of the European Research Council funded project ‘Ego-Media: the impact of new media on forms and practices of self-represen
...MoreCharlotte Xiaou Wu is a doctoral candidate in the English / Medical Humanities departments at King’s College London, and part of the European Research Council funded project ‘Ego-Media: the impact of new media on forms and practices of self-representation’. Her research interests include social understandings of health and illness, literature and narrative, and issues relating to race, gender and sexuality. Currently, her thesis focuses on public narratives of HIV/AIDS in post-apartheid South Africa, examining how contemporary literary and digital representations interact with social and historical conceptions of the phenomenon. The thesis is supervised by Professors Brian Hurwitz and Max Saunders. From May 2016 – July 2017, she was based at Wits Institute of Social and Economic Research, at the University of the Witswatersrand in Johannesburg. Charlotte holds a MPhil in Multidisciplinary Gender Studies and a BA in English from the University of Cambridge.
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