PhD defence: Julia Fernelius
Julia Fernelius is defending her thesis “Furnishing Modernity: The Domestic Interior and Shifting Object Worlds in Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End” on Wednesday, 25 February.
Date of defence: Wednesday, 25 February, at 13.00h.
Location: Campus Frescati, Södra Huset, Hörsal 4.
Illustration by Tora Kirchmeier.
In the thesis “Furnishing Modernity”, Julia Fernelius reconsiders Ford Madox Ford’s tetralogy Parade’s End (1924–1928) through the material world of the domestic interior.
The thesis investigates how furniture, décor, and the broader landscape of everyday objects shape the exploration of consciousness, modernity, and the upheavals of the First World War in Ford’s tetralogy. By placing Parade’s End in dialogue with contemporaneous developments in visual art, design, and architecture, the thesis offers a cross-disciplinary perspective on how material culture mediates both personal experience and historical transformation.
“Furnishing Modernity” responds to ongoing critical debates on history and representation in modernist studies, and offers new insights into the aesthetic, stylistic, and intellectual concerns that define Ford’s significant contribution to British modernism.
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Last updated: 2025-12-16
Source: Department of English