Lucy Boucher is a PhD graduate from the University of Brunel, London, in Creative Writing and English Literature. She is currently working on a dissertation examining the power of mimetic desire and the rhetoric employed to sell the idea of the ‘fit’ and ‘healthy’ body in the burgeoning consumer culture of the late 19th century through Bernarr Macfadden’s advertising and magazines, through to the WWII period of Bob Hoffman, and the late 1980s through Joe Weider’s advertising and publishing.
She was a visiting scholar at the University of Johannesburg in 2017.
Degrees
Ph.D. University of Brunel
Honors
- Recipient of a American Kinesiology Association 2024 graduate student writing award
Published Work
- 2021 Deaths and Entrances: Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen (Bloomsbury)
- 2021 ‘My Bob Dylan Mask: Bob Dylan and the Art of Artifice’ in Dylan at 80, edited by Gary Browning.
- 2023 ‘The Mother of Physical Culture: Mary Macfadden and the Media Narrative of Bernarr Macfadden’s Physical Culture Family,’ Iron Game History,
- 2023 Lucy Boucher and Conor Heffernan, “A Great Weight Lifted: The History of the British Amateur Weight-Lifting Association,” Sport in History (2023)
- 2024 ‘I’ll Wear a Mask For You’: The Literary Personae of Leonard Cohen in The World of Leonard Cohen Edited by David R. Shumway (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
