Evie Sutcliffe, Lochie Springett, and Dr Luke Young: The Many Forms of Modernist Life-Writing

Evie Sutcliffe, Lochie Springett, and Dr Luke Young:

The Many Forms of Modernist Life-Writing

Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop

Details to follow.

Speaker Details:

Further details to follow.

Evie Sutcliffe is a second-year DPhil candidate in the Faculty of English at the University of Oxford. Their thesis asks: How does emergency shape literary form? Working on three women writers from the 1930s (American war journalist Martha Gellhorn, American poet Muriel Rukeyser, and British author Rebecca West), Evie interrogates their various waves of response to political crisis, paying close attention to the slippage in form. Her genetic methodology reads these writers’ unpublished diaries alongside their printed works to determine how immediate experience is mediated into public response.

Lochie Sprigett is a DPhil candidate in the Faculty of English at the University of Oxford.

Dr Luke Young recently completed a DPhil in English at the University of Oxford.

About the Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshops:

The Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshops were established in 2022 by OCLW’s Professor Dame Hermione Lee, Professor Elleke Boehmer, and Dr Kate Kennedy in collaboration with the Faculty of English at the University of Oxford. The workshops celebrate the life and intellectual legacy of Professor Laura Marcus (1956–2021): one of the most influential literary scholars of her generation and a much-loved colleague, teacher, and friend.

Held twice each term, the workshops provide a rare and valuable space for sustained intellectual exchange between students, academics, and writers. They foster conversations around creative practice and academic research, bringing together established and emerging voices. Their purpose is not simply to present completed research, but to create a collaborative intellectual space in which ideas can be developed, tested, challenged, and refined.

As part of The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing’s fifteenth anniversary fundraising campaign, we are seeking to establish The Laura Marcus Fund to secure the future of the Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshops.

By donating to the Laura Marcus Fund, you will help ensure that Laura’s vision of scholarship—rigorous, generous, imaginative, and collaborative—continues to inspire future generations.

Find out more and donate here.

Further Details and Contacts:

This is an in-person event and will not be recorded.

This workshop is exclusively open to current members of the University of Oxford. Workshop places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis, with priority given to members of the Faculty of English. 

Registration is required and will close at 17:00 on Tuesday, 17 November 2026. Confirmation of successful registration will be sent soon after.

If you are able, please consider donating £5, £10, £20, or more to support OCLW’s free events, outreach activities, and programmes, helping us to keep life-writing open to all.

Donations can be made when booking your place or via our online donations portal. Every gift makes a difference. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Queries regarding this event should be addressed to Dr Julia Dallaway.