Charlotte Rudman: 'The Secret Autobiography of my PhD'

 Sound has always filled my house.

 Wind whistles through the old doors and windows, stairs creak and floorboards groan. Every genre of music has issued from multiple instruments and iPods. My house has never been silent.

 I am a dreamer for what could be and what might have been. I am a lover of fantasy. Find me a literature student my age who didn’t grow up with Harry Potter? I read my horoscope. I am interested in the nature of dreams. I am absorbed by a good story.

 Medieval literature, particularly the dream visions, ticks all my boxes.

Charlotte Rudman is a second year PhD student in the Department of English at King’s College London, researching sound and sound representations in medieval dream vision poetry, @charrud.