We research across the full range of the long nineteenth century, from the Romantic period to the fin de siècle.
Three major themes run throughout our work. The first is the concept of authorship, considering how writers in the nineteenth century saw their own role as authors. Case studies within the department, linked to major new editorial projects, include work on Charles Lamb, George Meredith, Oscar Wilde and Henry James, as well as work on authors’ networks and correspondence across the century. The second is the relationship between literature and the visual arts. Work at this interface within the department runs from the eighteenth century to the present. In the nineteenth century it centres in particular on the Pre-Raphaelite and Aesthetic movements, looking at their poetry and art criticism alongside their paintings, sculpture and design. The third strand is research into the relationship between literature and science. Here our work includes work on literary and scientific institutions, from museums to the periodical press, on literary forms including poetry and science fiction, and on scientific theories, including Darwinian and non-Darwinian theories of evolution.
Associate Professor in Romanticism and Eighteenth-Century English Literature
- Samuel Richardson and epistolary fiction
- Letter-writing and authorial archives
- Literary fame and celebrity
- The novel and prose style
- Life-writing (autobiography, biography, memoir)
Associate Professor in Nineteenth-Century Literature
My current work focuses on the reception of ancient Egypt in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. More broadly, I am interested in the materiality and history of the book, as well as notions of the supernatural and the occult, particularly as these ideas operate at the edges of a range of scientific discourses. I teach literature from the late eighteenth century to the present, with particular ...
Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Cultures
- American Literature
- American Art
- Realism
- Illustration
- Visual Culture
- Print Culture
Associate Professor in Nineteenth Century Literature
- Nineteenth-century prose
- Henry James
- Life-writing
- Textual revision
- Literary editing
- Quotation and allusion
Senior Lecturer in Poetry
- English Poetry
- Romantic-period Writing and its Legacies
- Individualism
- Lyric Voice
Professor of Victorian Literature and Culture
- Nineteenth-century literature
- Literature and science
- Evolution and ecology
- Literature and the visual arts
- Poetic form
Professor of English Literature
- Early modern literature
- Romantic literature
- Reception
- Poetry
- Drama
- Manuscript
Professor of English Literature
Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education)
- Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Women Writers
- Modernism
- The Novel 1880-1940
- Literature and Visual Arts 1840-1940
- The Nineteenth and Twentieth Century City
Professor in Victorian Literature and Culture
Head of Department of English Literature
- Victorian literature and culture
- Textual editing
- Affect studies
- Literature and the visual arts
Senior Lecturer in English Literature
- Eighteenth-century literature and art
- Romanticism
- Intellectual history
- Aesthetics
- Utopianism
- Scottish literature
Professor of English Literature
Head of English Drama and Creative Studies
- Late nineteenth/Early twentieth century literature
- Victorian and Modernist Art Writing/Criticism
- John Ruskin, Walter Pater, Henry James
- Modernism
- Postmodernism
Associate Professor in North American Literature
- Late-eighteenth and nineteenth-century American literature
- American Gothic
- Literature of the sea, from the Romantic period to the present day
Associate Professor in Victorian Literature
My research focusses on the relationship between the British Empire and Victorian Literature, with specialist interests in migration, settler colonialism, memory and textual and material culture. I have further interests in decolonisation, museums, literature and the visual arts. I teach and work on a wide range of nineteenth-century and neo-Victorian literatures, with an emphasis on decolonial ...
Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature
- Romantic-period writing – especially the Wordsworths, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, John Keats and the cockney-school
- Literary afterlives
- Poetry and poetics across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
- Humour and comedy
- Sound studies
- The environment