Staff profile

My thesis examines the mimesis of hallucinatory experience in mid-twentieth century fiction, focusing on how the phenomenology of such experience is conveyed through the manipulation of stylistic and narratological conventions. I am one of the two funded PhD students on the university’s interdisciplinary Hearing the Voice project, and my supervisors are Professor Patricia Waugh, Professor David Herman and Dr Peter Garratt.

I received both my BA and MA in English Literature from Durham University, in 2013 and 2014 respectively. 

Publications

“Enacting Hallucinatory Experience in Fiction: Metalepsis, Agency, and the Phenomenology of Reading in Muriel Spark’s The Comforters”, Style 50.2 (2016).

Journal Article

• Alderson-Day, B., Moseley, P., Mitrenga, K., Moffatt, J., Lee, R., Foxwell, J., …Fernyhough, C. (2023). Varieties of felt presence? Three surveys of presence phenomena and their relations to psychopathology. Psychological Medicine, 53(8), 3692-3700. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291722000344
• Foxwell, J., Alderson-Day, B., Fernyhough, C., & Woods, A. (2020). ‘I’ve learned I need to treat my characters like people’: Varieties of agency and interaction in Writers’ experiences of their Characters’ Voices. Consciousness and Cognition, 79, Article 102901. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2020.102901
• Foxwell, J. (2019). Enacting Hallucinatory Experience in Fiction: Metalepsis, Agency, and the Phenomenology of Reading in Muriel Spark's The Comforters. Style (Fayetteville), 50(2), 139-157. https://doi.org/10.1353/sty.2016.0007