Department of History
Alice Emmanuelle Lyzcia
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Key information
- Roles
- Department of History PhD Student in History Department of Politics and International Studies Graduate Teaching Assistant
- Department
- Department of History
- Qualifications
- BA (Norwich), MA (London)
- Email address
- al81@soas.ac.uk
- Internal Supervisors
- Dr James Caron
Biography
Alice Emmanuelle Lyzcia is an interdisciplinary historian currently pursuing doctoral research in the Department of History at SOAS.
Her research explores women’s Urdu literary and epistolary production in twentieth-century Pakistan as a repository of political history. In particular, she focuses on the psychiatric hospital as a key institution in the postcolonial state apparatus. Her historical work on psychiatry is informed in orientation by ongoing professional experience in psychiatric nursing teams.
She also teaches modules on political theory and global history in the Department of Politics and International Studies.
Research interests
- Histories of psychiatry and mental illness
- World literatures
- Feminist historiography
- Postcolonial and decolonial theory
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