Department Member, English
Thesis Title: Unnameable Desire: Inter-Female Intimacy in the Writings of Charles Dickens
About
My main research interests focus on the Victorian period, and my work participates in a broader revision of approaches to Dickens. My doctoral thesis is informed by three key research areas (Dickens, Victorian, and Gender/Sexuality studies), yet locates a gap at the intersection of these fields. This research is also informed by the recovery of little known material published in magazines and journals during the nineteenth-century.
More widely, I also enjoy thinking about and working on the impact of Victorian conceptualisations of desire upon twentieth and twenty-first century women’s writing, lesbianism and literary adaptations, and the early twentieth-century’s popularisation of Dickens.
I recently co-organised an interdisciplinary conference on Victorian legacies and the shaping of Modernism hosted by the University of Liverpool.
