Self-Portrait as Someone Else and Transness in 1920s-1960s Fiction

这项以实践为主导的跨性别写作、身份和主题的研究包括创造性和批判性的组成部分：一部正式创新的文学小说，在交叉叙事层中使用小说来探索当代跨性别经历，尤其是在工人阶级的背景下；以及对跨史前时期跨性别身份表现的研究，为一种新的跨文学批评做出贡献。我自己也是跨性别者（而且是工人阶级），经过性别认同服务机构的诊断，正在接受激素治疗（我计划用一个与我申请的名字不同的名字毕业），所以尽管我不打算直接写自传，但我的作品将受到我正在进行的变性实践的影响——从深层次上讲，这是一种研究。

This practice-led research into transgender writing, identity and themes comprises creative and critical components: a formally innovative literary novel using fiction in intersecting narrative layers to explore contemporary trans experience both pre- and post-transition, particularly in a working-class context; and a study of representations of cross-gender identities in a period of trans prehistory, contributing towards a new trans literary criticism.I'm trans (and working-class) myself, diagnosed by a gender identity service and undergoing hormone therapy (I plan on graduating with a different name than the one I'm applying under), so although I don't intend direct autofiction, the work will be influenced by my ongoing transition - practice as research in a deep sense.