Andrea Zemgulys, a candidate for the Ph.D. in English, is writing a dissertation entitled Writers’ Blocks: Modernist Authorship and Literary Geography in the London Metropolis 1880-1939. Zemgulys will examine how a “literary London” was created by London’s municipal government, topographers, novelists, and tour book writers at the turn of the century; and how British modernist writers of the early twentieth century engaged with this London in defining themselves and their art. This is to ague that between literature and the city lay a complex of interpretations and practices that conditioned how the city would change and how literature would change with it.