IOA director of communications, Antonia Chitty, is hoping her newly acquired PhD in creative writing will help expand our knowledge of what it’s like to live with sight loss.
As part of her PhD from Goldsmiths College, University of London, Antonia produced a critical paper using postcolonial and disability theories to look at sight loss in literature, from the perspective of academics with experience of it.
Having already achieved an MA in creative writing in 2015 from the University of Sussex, Antonia has also written a novel about an ophthalmologist who loses their sight. This formed part of the work assessed for her PhD.
She said: “I have really enjoyed working on my doctorate alongside my work at ABDO. It has been a privilege to have the chance to delve deeply into an underexplored area of study, looking at the crossovers and tensions between postcolonial theory, literary theory and disability theory in relation to writing about lived experience of sight loss.
“I’m so pleased to have passed the written and viva examinations with positive feedback from the examiners, and my main thought now is how to find time to continue work on this topic,” she added.
Topic: ABDO
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