Megan Girdwood is Assistant Professor in Modern Literature, 1870-1945 at Durham University. She has published work in journals including Modernist Cultures, the Journal of Modern Literature, the Irish Studies Review, and The Cambridge Quarterly. Her monograph, Modernism and the Choreographic Imagination, is shortlisted for the MSA First Book Prize 2022.
This insightful study places Salom� at the centre of modernist considerations of dance. Exploring a diverse array of contexts beginning with the fin de si�cle, Girdwood captures the way in which the veiled figure of Salom� has engendered multiple meanings through representations of the moving body in twentieth-century writing.--Susan Jones, University of Oxford