Miyu Sasaki ‘25 Published in The Modernist Review

Bard College Berlin alumna Miyu Sasaki ‘25 has been published in a special issue of The Modernist Review on the occasion of the 34th Annual International Conference on Virginia Wolf. Titled ‘The Ominous and the Gothic in the Mundane: Rachel Cusk’s Arlington Park as a Contemporary Critical Rewriting of Mrs Dalloway,’ the article is a reworking of her undergraduate thesis. 

According to Sasaki, “the article focuses on the Gothic tropes and echoes in Arlington Park and reflects on the psychological hauntings in the two novels and their engagement in the British Gothic tradition.” She explores the similarities shared by the two novels: chronicling a single day in the lives of women, specifically housewives and mothers, and Cusk’s deployment of “Woolf’s famous multiperspectival narrative style.” Sasaki adds a new perspective to the preexisting literary examination of these two works, focusing on how “these intertextual echoes amplify some of the less evident Gothic qualities of Mrs Dalloway to portray the repression of contemporary middle-class women within their domestic lives, so that Arlington Park presents itself also as a critical reading of its hypotext.”

Sasaki’s article, as well as her original thesis, were supervised by Prof. Dr. Laura Scuriatti, Professor of English and Comparative Literature. Sasaki is currently finishing her first semester in the master’s program in General and Comparative Literature at the Freie Universität.

Post Date: 02-16-2026