Key details
Molly Bolding
Postgraduate Researcher
Molly Bolding is a postgraduate researcher at the University of Greenwich, and a research learning and development practitioner at the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. They hold a BA and MA (Cantab) in English from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and an MA in Holocaust Studies from Royal Holloway. Their time at Royal Holloway’s Holocaust Research Institute included a dissertation analysing the role of metaphor in historical interpretations of the ‘Scrolls of Auschwitz’, under Prof Robert Eaglestone, and a paper on the legacy of museum reconstructions of the ‘Degenerate Art’ exhibition of 1937 at the British and Irish Association for Holocaust Studies Conference 2025. They are currently undertaking a part-time History PhD, funded by a Vice-Chancellor's Scholarship, with the title ‘De-colonising Maritime Greenwich: Confronting histories and legacies of empire, c. 1694-2025’. Their most recent publication was ‘The Online Tutor’s Toolkit’ (Routledge, 2023).
Awards
David Cesarani/Kobler Scholarship 2024, Royal Holloway; Prize for best overall performance on MA Holocaust Studies 2025, Royal Holloway; Vice-Chancellor's Scholarship 2025, University of Greenwich
Recognition
Associate Member, Society of Authors
Research / Scholarly interests
In terms of my academic background, as part of my undergraduate degree in English at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, I submitted two dissertations: one on contemporary Black fiction on memory and policing in the US, focused on Claudia Rankine’s prose-poem Just Us, and on antisemitism in British literary criticism of George Eliot in the 1940s. My MA dissertation applied a critical post-humanist lens to the ‘Scrolls of Auschwitz’, the writings of the Sonderkommando Jews who were forced to work in the crematoria, with previous research ranging from local authority public health policies in Germany and Austria in the 1930s-40s, to the international legacy of the Nazis’ 1937 ‘Degenerate Art’ exhibition. The latter essay was presented at the British and Irish Association for Holocaust Studies conference in 2025. My multidisciplinary doctoral research involves Holocaust and genocide studies, literary criticism, historical sociology, colonial history, and history of education – all through an affective post-humanist framework of analysis. In addition to my academic writing, my published work includes my first full-length book, ‘The Online Tutor’s Toolkit’, which published with Routledge in 2023, and an extensive portfolio of education journalism published with Tes Magazine, Teach Secondary, and others.
Recent publications
Bolding, M. (2022). The Online Tutor’s Toolkit. Taylor & Francis.