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

这种以实践为导向的跨性别者写作、身份和主题研究由创造性和批判性部分组成：一部形式上创新的文学小说，在交叉叙事层面上使用小说来探索当代跨性别者在转型前和转型后的经历，特别是在工人阶级背景下；以及对跨史前时期跨性别身份表征的研究，有助于形成一种新的跨性别文学批评。我自己是跨性别者(和工人阶级)，被性别认同服务机构诊断为跨性别者，正在接受荷尔蒙治疗(我计划毕业时用一个不同于我申请的名字的名字)，所以尽管我不打算直接写自传，但这部作品将受到我正在进行的转型实践的影响，作为深层次的研究。

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.