About
Victorianist and Neo-Victorianist interested in Victorian Literature, History, Culture and Heritage; Contemporary literature and culture, and particularly its recent negotiations with the Victorian era through neo-Victorian appropriations of the long nineteenth century; the (de)construction of identities and societal roles, adaptation theory, paratexts and their transformations; the relationship between the classes in the past and present as depicted in literature, on film and television, along with Victorian and neo-Victorian pastiche, parody, and satire. My approach to research is interdisciplinary in nature and involves drawing on critical literary analysis, historical evidence, and postmodern theories of interpretation. And I have a cat called Victoria. Education
2009 – 2012 The University of Hull – PhD ‘(Neo)-Victorian Impersonations: 19thcentury Gender in Contemporary Literature’: Pass (minimum corrections).
2009 – 2012 PGDip – Postgraduate Research Training: Pass.
2011 Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (Module 1only – Distinction).
2008 – 2009 The University of Hull – MA Women, Gender, and Literature: Distinction. MA Dissertation: ‘Water as Metaphor in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Literature and Culture’.
2005 – 2008 The University of Hull – BA (Hons) Joint English and History: 1 (First Class) BA Dissertation: ‘Class, Power, and Subversion in Mid-Victorian Sensation Fiction’.
Publications
October 2015 – ‘Mashers and Murderers: Music Hall Impersonators and their depiction in Neo-Victorian Fiction’, European Drama and Performance Studies, Special Issue: Consuming the Actress, Volume 5, Issue 2, pp.145-162.
May 2014 – ‘A Companion to George Eliot’ Review, Women’s Writing, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 611-613.
December 2012 – ‘The Continued Fascination with Freaks, review of Durbach, Nadia ‘Spectacle of Deformity: Freak shows and modern British culture; Lillian Craton, The Victorian Freak Show: The significance of disability and physical differences in 19th Century fiction’, Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume17, Issue 4, pp.559-562.
September 2012 – Book Review: Finn, Michael. R., ‘Hysteria, Hypnotism, and the Spirits’, Journal of French History, Volume 26, Issue 3, pp.418-419.
November 2011 – ‘Neo-Victorian Impersonations: Vesta Tilley and Tipping the Velvet’, Neo- Victorian Studies, Volume 4, Issue 1, pp.55-76.
