<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 21.6pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 200%; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://oxford.academia.edu/LEJHouston">Dr Lloyd(Meadhbh) Houston</a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"> is Foundation Year Tutorin English at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, Associate Lecturer inTheatre and Performance at Goldsmiths College, University of London, andHourly-Paid Lecturer in Film, Media, and Design, at the University of WestLondon.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 21.6pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 200%; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Their recently-completed doctoral thesis, “Irish Modernism andthe Politics of Sexual Health”, explored cultural responses to themedicalisation and politicisation of sex in late nineteenth- and earlytwentieth-century Ireland. Supported by the inaugural Hertford College –Faculty of English DPhil Scholarship in Irish Literature in English, theirdoctorate was awarded the <a href="https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/article/swapna-dev-memorial-book-prize-awarded-to-lloyd-meadhbh-houston">2019-2020 SwapnaDev Memorial Prize for the best doctoral thesis in English literature at theUniversity of Oxford</a>. Other research interests include the social historyof medicine, queer modernisms, and the cultural politics of censorship andobscenity. Their work has appeared in the <a href="https://academic.oup.com/res/advance-article/doi/10.1093/res/hgy010/4831460?guestAccessKey=129bca07-9439-433c-a8b1-7263dedc1874"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Reviewof English Studies</span></i></a>, <a href="https://academic.oup.com/library/article/18/2/131/3872275/Illegal-Deposits-Ulysses-and-the-Copyright?guestAccessKey=9d1263a5-932c-4a30-9078-570701db5498"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">TheLibrary</span></i></a>, and the <a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/hnsDUipcwEtRIgYFwsJB/full"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">IrishStudies Review</span></i></a>, where they were awarded the 2017 BritishAssociation of Irish Studies Essay Prize, in the edited collections <i><a href="https://www.corkuniversitypress.com/Flann-O-Brien-p/9781782054214.htm">FlannO’Brien: Gallows Humour</a></i> (Cork University Press), <i>Irish Modernisms:Gaps, Conjectures, Possibilities</i> (Bloomsbury), and <i>Patient Voices inBritain, 1840-1948</i> (Manchester University Press), and has been featured inthe <a href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/sex-libris/"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Times</span></i> <i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">LiterarySupplement</span></i></a>, <i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/nov/08/inside-the-bodleian-library-explicit-immoral-books-phi-collection-on-display">The Guardian</a></span></i>¸and on the <i><a href="https://play.acast.com/s/censored/filthandfaeces-beckett-morepricksthankicks-1934-">Censored <span style="font-style:normal">podcast</span></a></i>. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 21.6pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 200%; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Lloyd (Meadhbh) is Communications Officer for the <a href="https://bairishstudies.wordpress.com/2018/09/03/irish-studies-in-britain-2017-8/" style="transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;"><span style="color:#CA2017">British Association for Irish Studies</span></a>, sits onthe <a href="http://torch.ox.ac.uk/oxford-critical-theory-network" style="transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;"><span style="color:#CA2017">Oxford Critical Theory Network</span></a> council, andco-organises the </span><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://queermodernismconference.wordpress.com/" style="transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;"><span style="color:#CA2017">Queer Modernism(s)</span></a></span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"> conference series. They are also the former convener ofthe <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/OxModCon/" style="transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;"><span style="color:#CA2017">University of Oxford Modern and Contemporary LiteratureResearch Seminar</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
