Genevieve Smart, B.A. MA
Genevieve Smart
Predoc
- Department of English and American Studies
Employment
Predoc
Department of English and American Studies
University of ViennaWien, Austria
1 Apr 2026 → present
Research Interests
Genevieve Smart is an AHRC/CHASE-funded doctoral researcher at Birkbeck, University of London researching queer and non-female childbirth in avant-garde literature. Due to submit her PhD in April 2026, Genevieve continues to publish and teach at the intersection of literature, psychoanalysis, gender studies, and the medical humanities. Genevieve is also a co-organiser of the international research network for scholars and practitioners working in reproduction, Broadly Conceived.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
1.‘Male Birth in Apollinaire's Les mamelles de Tirésias: From Duplicity to Prophetic In(ter)vention.’ Modernist Cultures, vol. 20, no. 2-3, 2025, pp. 213-236.
2.‘Impossible Births: Childbirth Beyond the (M)other in Jacques Lacan and Mina Loy.’ PsyArt, vol. 25, no. 1, 2021, pp. 25-70.
3.‘The Trinitarian Dialectics of Child Development and The Perceptive-Creative Act of Faith in the Work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.’ The Coleridge Bulletin, vol. 51, no. 1, 2018, pp. 63-76.
4.‘“Faith that inly feels”: Protolanguage, the Logos, and affective experience in “The Eolian Harp.”’ The Coleridge Bulletin, vol. 48, no. 1, 2016, pp. 43-57.
2.‘Impossible Births: Childbirth Beyond the (M)other in Jacques Lacan and Mina Loy.’ PsyArt, vol. 25, no. 1, 2021, pp. 25-70.
3.‘The Trinitarian Dialectics of Child Development and The Perceptive-Creative Act of Faith in the Work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.’ The Coleridge Bulletin, vol. 51, no. 1, 2018, pp. 63-76.
4.‘“Faith that inly feels”: Protolanguage, the Logos, and affective experience in “The Eolian Harp.”’ The Coleridge Bulletin, vol. 48, no. 1, 2016, pp. 43-57.
Conference Papers
1.‘Inward Dimensions: Mina Loy and Psychosynthesis’, Mapping Mina Loy Studies Conference, Online (August 2023).
2.‘The First Ever Pregnant Man, Again: A Surrealist Challenge to Male Birth’s Novelty’, Broadly Conceived Conference, Birkbeck, University of London (July 2023).
3.‘F. T. Marinetti and the Gutsy Act of Male Childbirth’, Modernity and the Gut Conference, University of Glasgow (April 2023).
4.‘Medicalized Queerness and Symptomatic Resistance: The Case of Enif Robert’, Queer Dis-Eases: Disruptive Histories, Politics, and Bodies Conference, European Universities Institute, Florence (May 2023).
5.‘Avant-Garde Forms of Illness: Enif Robert and L'Italia Futurista’, CHASE Re-Encounters Conference, Online (June 2022).
6.‘‘The rapture of cracking like an eggshell, from which the perfect chick will soar!’: Queer Temporalities of Homosexual Reproduction in F. T. Marinetti’s Mafarka the Futurist’, Queer Temporalities in Literature, Cinema, and Video Games International Conference, University of Murcia, Online, (December 2021).
7.‘Distant Connections: Freud's Telephone in the Time of COVID-19’, CHASE Virtual Encounters, University of Essex, Online (November 2021).
8.‘You Are What You Eat: Cannibalistic Incorporative Identification in Freudian Accounts of Weaning and Mourning’, “Bites Here and There”: Literal and Metaphorical Cannibalism Across Disciplines – One Day Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Warwick (November 2018).
9.‘“Thy wretched mother's shorten'd chain”: Birth, the Maternal, and the Spiritual in the works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’, “Coleridge’s Religious Imagination” Conference, Hallsway Manor, Somerset (September 2017).
2.‘The First Ever Pregnant Man, Again: A Surrealist Challenge to Male Birth’s Novelty’, Broadly Conceived Conference, Birkbeck, University of London (July 2023).
3.‘F. T. Marinetti and the Gutsy Act of Male Childbirth’, Modernity and the Gut Conference, University of Glasgow (April 2023).
4.‘Medicalized Queerness and Symptomatic Resistance: The Case of Enif Robert’, Queer Dis-Eases: Disruptive Histories, Politics, and Bodies Conference, European Universities Institute, Florence (May 2023).
5.‘Avant-Garde Forms of Illness: Enif Robert and L'Italia Futurista’, CHASE Re-Encounters Conference, Online (June 2022).
6.‘‘The rapture of cracking like an eggshell, from which the perfect chick will soar!’: Queer Temporalities of Homosexual Reproduction in F. T. Marinetti’s Mafarka the Futurist’, Queer Temporalities in Literature, Cinema, and Video Games International Conference, University of Murcia, Online, (December 2021).
7.‘Distant Connections: Freud's Telephone in the Time of COVID-19’, CHASE Virtual Encounters, University of Essex, Online (November 2021).
8.‘You Are What You Eat: Cannibalistic Incorporative Identification in Freudian Accounts of Weaning and Mourning’, “Bites Here and There”: Literal and Metaphorical Cannibalism Across Disciplines – One Day Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Warwick (November 2018).
9.‘“Thy wretched mother's shorten'd chain”: Birth, the Maternal, and the Spiritual in the works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’, “Coleridge’s Religious Imagination” Conference, Hallsway Manor, Somerset (September 2017).
Public articles
1. Genevieve Smart, ‘Female Sperm and the Future of Reproduction’, The Polyphony, 7 May 2024 <https://thepolyphony.org/2024/05/07/female-sperm/>
The Polyphony is a popular public web platform for conversations across the Medical Humanities. Genevieve Smart's article was one of the site’s most-read articles in 2024.
The Polyphony is a popular public web platform for conversations across the Medical Humanities. Genevieve Smart's article was one of the site’s most-read articles in 2024.
Prizes
•2024 – The British Association of Modernist Studies Essay Prize: This prize was awarded for Genevieve's article on Guillaume Apollinaire’s depictions of male birth fantasies, developed from a PhD chapter. Alongside a monetary prize, Genevieve's article was awarded publication in the top-tier modernist studies journal Modernist Cultures (Edinburgh University Press).
•2023 – Margaret Elise Harkness Fellowship Prize: This prize for outstanding postgraduate research was awarded to Genevieve's PhD chapter on the little-known feminist Futurist writer, Enif Robert. In this chapter, Genevieve produced the first archival research on Robert, and the first English translation of her novel, Un ventre di donna (1919).
•2023-2026 – CHASE (AHRC) Cohort Development Fund: Over £1000 has been awarded to Genevieve's international Medical Humanities research network, ‘Broadly Conceived’, following successful grant applications.
•2021-2026 – CHASE (AHRC) full PhD studentship
•2020-2021 – Birkbeck School of Arts fees award
•2016 – Warwick University Academic Excellence MA Scholarship
•2023 – Margaret Elise Harkness Fellowship Prize: This prize for outstanding postgraduate research was awarded to Genevieve's PhD chapter on the little-known feminist Futurist writer, Enif Robert. In this chapter, Genevieve produced the first archival research on Robert, and the first English translation of her novel, Un ventre di donna (1919).
•2023-2026 – CHASE (AHRC) Cohort Development Fund: Over £1000 has been awarded to Genevieve's international Medical Humanities research network, ‘Broadly Conceived’, following successful grant applications.
•2021-2026 – CHASE (AHRC) full PhD studentship
•2020-2021 – Birkbeck School of Arts fees award
•2016 – Warwick University Academic Excellence MA Scholarship
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