Dr Briony Wickes is the incoming Treasurer of BAVS, and currently manages the BAVS/BARS Nineteenth-Century Matters Fellowship, an initiative that seeks to support unaffiliated early career researchers and help them to disseminate their work. She is a Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Sustainability at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Briony’s primary research and teaching interests are in nineteenth-century literature (especially the novel form), critical and cultural theory, environmental humanities, animal studies, and ongoing histories of colonialism.