Ongoing research
Currently, she is focused on queer masculinities in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and writing a book about E.F. Benson and George Wolfe Plank.
Selected Conference Papers
GARWOOD, SASHA, 2024. ‘The Skull beneath the Skin: women, sex, and food refusal in early modern England’. Stori Naturali di Digiuni Prodigiosi, University of Pavia, September 17th 2024. Invited speaker.
GARWOOD, SASHA, 2024. ‘From athletocracy to wild swimming: love, sexuality, and Edwardian masculinity’. Wild Play, University of Nottingham Department of Philosophy, April 26th 2024.
GARWOOD, SASHA, 2024. ”Michael Sheen Ghosted Me’, or Interdisiplinarity, inclusivity, and inviting challenges on a Foundation course.’ University of Nottingham Teaching & Learning conference, 23rd April 2024.
GARWOOD, SASHA, 2021. ”Manliness’ and ‘beastliness’: masculinity, sexuality and food in early twentieth century public school fiction’. ‘You Are What You Eat’: Food and Identity From the Middle Ages to the Modern Day at University of Warwick, Friday 18th June 2021.
GARWOOD, SASHA, 2020. ‘Manliness and Beastliness: sex, food and masculinity in Edwardian public school fiction’. Devouring Men: Food Masculinity and Power, University of St Andrews, 4 September 2020.
GARWOOD, SASHA, 2019. ‘I’ll starve myself to death!’ – Self-starvation, self-assertion, and women’s violence against the self in early modern England.’ Gender and Violence in the Early Modern World, Women’s History Network at the University of Cambridge, 23 November 2019.
GARWOOD, SASHA, 2018. ‘”This miserable and wretched body of mine”: women’s emotions, food refusal and the gendered body in early modern England’. Gendered Emotions in History conference, University of Sheffield, 29 June 2018.
GARWOOD, SASHA, 2016. ‘Sifting through the ashes: exploring the social circle of the country house at Brodsworth Hall’. White Rose Humanities Research Network Travel and Transport conference, University of York, 10 September 2016.
GARWOOD, SASHA, 2016. ”At dinner, supper or in taverns’: food and community in early modern England’. Concepts of Community conference, University of Sheffield, 21-22 March 2016.
GARWOOD, SASHA, 2012. ‘Elizabeth Eating (or not): food and the body as means of communication’. Royal Bodies, Royal Holloway, 2-4 April 2012.
GARWOOD, SASHA, 2010. ‘Fisting and Feasting: femininity, desire, and the iconography of the female body in hardcore BDSM pornography.’ (Image)ining the Female Body conference, University of Sussex, October 29th 2010.
GARWOOD, SASHA, 2010. ‘Women and self-starvation: materialising the spiritual’. Materialising the Spiritual, Society for Renaissance Studies conference, York, 16-18 July 2010.
Recent Research Partnerships
The Bess of Hardwick Project, a collaboration between the University of Sheffield, Hardwick Hall (National Trust) and Chatsworth (Chatsworth House Trust)
Conducting a scoping survey of archival materials related to Bess of Hardwick, suggesting directions for further research and exhibitions. Contributing to organising symposium on Bess at University of Sheffield, July 2019, and major multisite exhibition.
University of Sheffield/Brodsworth Hall (English Heritage): Research Assistant
Conducted a scoping survey of archival materials related to the social lives and transport networks of the Thellusson and Grant-Dalton families. (April to December 2016).