Ruth Kitchen

After finishing my undergraduate degree in French and Italian at the University of Leeds I worked as an English teacher in Italy and Austria before returning to Leeds in 2004 to read for an MA in Cultural Studies.  I started my PhD with the project in October 2006.  My thesis focuses on the representation and evolution of the themes of guilt and shame in literature of the Occupation.  In April I gave my first paper on Maurice Blanchot and cultural amnesia at the University of Cambridge.