Jess Cotton

I am a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in English. I was born and educated in London, and was awarded my PhD from UCL in 2018. I was previously a Lecturer at Cardiff University.

My Leverhulme project, Lonely Subjects: Loneliness in Postwar Literature and Psychoanalysis, 1945-1975, is a postwar literary-historical study which investigates the relationship between the development of literary, psychoanalytic and welfare institutions and communities in relation to loneliness. The aim of this project is to provide a new paradigm for how we think of loneliness in relation to postwar forms of community – and also to make a case for a more social literary and psychoanalytic culture.