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• Pre-Raphaelitism in art and literature
• Victorian and contemporary poetry
• Women鈥檚 writing
• Environmental writing
• Victorian institutions

• BA (Hons) English Literature with Art History, King's College London
• MA Textual Studies, University of 探花直播
• PhD, 探花直播
• Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

• Senior Vice-President and chair of trustees at the 探花直播 & Midland Institute.
• Chair and Vice-President of the Pre-Raphaelite Society.
• Companion of the Guild of St George.Committee member for the Independent Libraries Association.
• Member of the British Association of Victorian Studies, the British Association of Romantic Studies, the Charlotte Mary Yonge Fellowship, the Mary Webb Society, the Housman Society, the William Morris Society and the Ruskin Society.

• The Victorians
• The Gothic
• Adaptations
• Major Project聽

• Pre-Raphaelite women鈥檚 writing (book currently under contract)

I am currently supervising, or have previously supervised, PhDs on topics including Pre-Raphaelite women, Walter Bagehot, Swinburne and weather poetry.

Monographs

The Poems of Evelyn De Morgan (Victorian Secrets, 2022)

My Ladys Soul: The Poetry of Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall (Victorian Secrets 2018)

Christina Rossetti鈥檚 Gothic, monograph (Bloomsbury 2013)

Book chapters

Invited chapter, The Gothic in Victorian Poetry鈥� in The Cambridge Companion to the History of the Gothic, ed. Dale Townshend (CUP 2020)

Invited chapter, 鈥楨lizabeth Siddall: Pre-Raphaelitism, Poetry, Prosody鈥�, in Defining Pre-Raphaelite Poetics ed. Heather Bozant Witcher and Amy Kahrmann Huseby (Palgrave 2020)

鈥楨lizabeth Siddall鈥� in The Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Victorian Women鈥檚 Writing, ed. Lisa Scholl (Palgrave 2020)

Invited chapter, 鈥楪ender and Space in Pre-Raphaelite paintings of 鈥淭he Eve of St Agnes鈥濃��, pp. 17-28 in Poetry and Painting: Pre-Raphaelitism, ed. Sophia Andres and Brian Donnelly (Peter Lang 2018)

Invited chapter, 鈥樷�淭ruth to Nature鈥�: The Pleasures and Dangers of the Environment in Christina Rossetti鈥檚 Poetry鈥�, pp. 63-78 in Victorian Writers and the Environment, ed. Ronald D. Morrison and Lawrence W. Mazzeno (Routledge聽2017)

鈥楶ast, Present and Future in the Gothic Graveyard鈥�, pp. 21-33 in The Gothic and Death, ed. Carol M. Davison (Manchester UP 2017)

鈥樷�淭he Wordless Secrets of Death鈥檚 Deep鈥�: Christina Rossetti鈥檚 Gothic鈥�, pp. 161-172 in Women and Gothic, ed. Maria Purves (Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2014)

鈥淎 Silent Heart鈥�: Christina Rossetti鈥檚 鈥淢onna Innominata鈥� as a Reconstruction of Dante鈥檚 Beatrice鈥�, pp. 77-96 in Dante in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Professor Nick Havely (University of York), Peter Lang Ltd, 2011

Journal articles

鈥楨motional Similes: Christina Rossetti鈥檚 Appropriation of Caroline Norton鈥�, The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies 28 (Spring 2019)

鈥樷�淭he very sky and sea-line of her soul鈥�: Nature, destruction and desire in Dante Gabriel Rossetti鈥檚 Poems鈥�, Victoriographies, Summer 2020 (also co-editor, with Dinah Roe)

Edited collections

Insanity and the Lunatic Asylum in the Nineteenth Century, edited collection with Thomas Knowles (Pickering & Chatto 2014)

Pre-Raphaelite Masculinities, edited collection with Amelia Yeates (Ashgate 2014)

Acts of Memory: The Victorians and Beyond, edited collection with Ryan Barnett (Cambridge Scholars Press 2010)

Keynote addresses and invited Public lectures

Invited speaker for 鈥楯ohn Ruskin, Art Education and Social Change鈥�, Conference at the National Gallery, London, September 2019

Public lectures relating to My Ladys Soul: Wightwick Manor (January 2019), The Ashmolean Museum (March 2019), Kelmscott Manor (April 2019), Penzance Literary Festival (July 2019), Red House (November 2019), National Portrait Gallery (November 2019), various bookshop events

Invited speaker on Siddall for University of 探花直播鈥檚 Nineteenth-Century series, March 2019

Keynote speaker for 鈥榃alpole and his Legacies鈥� colloquium, University of Durham, May 2017

Keynote speaker for the Pre-Raphaelite Society鈥檚 Founder鈥檚 Day, October 2016

Invited speaker for the 探花直播 Midland Institute鈥檚 lecture series, 2016 and 2017

Organiser of a series of public lectures at 探花直播 Museum & Art Gallery as part of the Reading Art project, April 2016

Guest lecture for St Saviour鈥檚 Church, Hitchin, on Christina Rossetti鈥檚 Tractarian poetry, September 2016

Invited speaker for BCU Mental Health conference, April 2016

Keynote speaker for the Charlotte Yonge Fellowship鈥檚 AGM in November 2014

Invited speaker on Pre-Raphaelite Art and Poetry, 探花直播 Museum and Art Gallery public lecture, June 2014

Guest lecture for the Pre-Raphaelite Society on Christina Rossetti, January 2014

Invited speaker for the Ruskin Seminar series at Lancaster University in 2010

Funding awarded

In 2018 I organised (with Sarah Wood) a series of events to celebrate the Frankenstein bicentennial, which was awarded 拢23k funding by the Vice-Chancellor.

In 2016 I was awarded an AHRC Cultural Engagement fund to build on my existing partnership with 探花直播 Museums & Art Gallery.

In May 2015, with the support of funding from the Faculty, I organised an exhibition of student artwork on the theme of Gothic which was held at the Library of 探花直播, alongside a one-day interdisciplinary event of talks relating to Gothic.

In 2013 I was awarded funding by the Higher Education Academy to produce a website which provides a pedagogical tool for undergraduates studying literary theory, and which is actively used in teaching and undergraduate research internationally:聽The Virtual Theorist

I was awarded a 2-week postgraduate scholarship at Gladstone鈥檚 Library, Hawarden, in 2008, to research Rossetti鈥檚 theology, and a further week for research on the graveyard poets in 2013

Conferences organised

Organiser and speaker for 鈥楶re-Raphaelite Women鈥� public day-school, 探花直播 & Midland Institute, November 2018

I was a member of the conference organisation committee for a large international conference on Costume Culture and Dress, organised by the ADM Faculty at BCU, taking place in May 2017 and again in June 2019

I am an active part of the committee of the Midlands Interdisciplinary Victorian Studies Seminars (MIVSS), which organises conferences and seminars in the Midlands. As a result of this, I organised a day of invited speakers and discussion on teaching and interdisciplinarity, in June 2011, and another on Victorian Gothic in June 2015. My most recent event was on Victorians and the Environment in April 2017 at BCU.

The Reading Art conference funded by AHRC Cultural Engagement fund took place at BMAG in 2016.

Cultural Cross-currents between Russia and Britain in the Nineteenth Century (co-organised with 探花直播 and Tomsk State University), international interdisciplinary conference for around 45 attendees in July 2013

Insanity and the Lunatic Asylum in the Nineteenth Century, an international interdisciplinary conference for around 60 attendees held at the former 探花直播 Lunatic Asylum, May 2011

Victorian Memories, 探花直播, international postgraduate conference for around 35 attendees, September 2007

Selected recent conference papers

鈥楨lizabeth Siddall: Poetics, Prosody and Painting鈥�, Pre-Raphaelite Sisters conference, December 2019

鈥樷�淗er Mother was a dancer at the Opera鈥�: how society women鈥檚 clothing in fiction reflects the rise and fall of Romantic ballet in the nineteenth century鈥�, Costume, Culture and Dress conference, BCU, June 2019

鈥榯here is still time to change ourselves鈥�: Contemporary fictional responses to climate change, Mediating Climate Change conference, University of Leeds, July 2017

鈥楩aded Silk鈥� or 鈥楩resh Splendour鈥�: Tennyson鈥檚 construction of female identity through dress in 鈥楪eraint and Enid鈥�, Culture, Costume and Dress conference, BCU, May 2017

Sympathetic 鈥榲oices from the trees鈥�? Trees and woods in Elizabeth Siddall鈥檚 poetry, The Memory of Trees conference, University of Liverpool, April 2017

鈥楬e feeds upon her face鈥�: Metaphors of consumption in the life and work of Elizabeth Siddall, British Association of Victorian Studies annual conference, University of Cardiff, September 2016

鈥楨ach in his narrow cell鈥�: Graveyard locations and the Poetry of Mortality, BARS 鈥楻omantic Locations鈥� conference, Grasmere, March 2014

鈥楳y Lady鈥檚 Soul鈥�: The Poetry of Elizabeth Siddal, Pre-Raphaelitism: Past, Present and Future, Oxford Brookes and the Ashmolean, September 2013

鈥楤y the Blue Tapers Trembling Light鈥�: Graveyard Poetry and the Gothic, Gothic Cultures conference, St Mary鈥檚 University College, Strawberry Hill, March 2013

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