BAVS Membership Directory

NameInstitutionAcademic StatusMain DisciplineResearch Interests
Adelle Hay Student Literary Studies My PhD is focused on how the works of Anne Brontë were edited. I am interested in how Anne Brontë edited her own works, how they were edited by others...
Aditi Premnath University of Leicester Student Literary Studies PhD student at the University of Leicester. Interested in all things Gothic. Currently studying works by author Bram Stoker.
Aiman Alshammari University of Glasgow Student Literary Studies My interest lies in the intricate examination of 19th-century British Street Literature, with a specific emphasis on unraveling the nuanced representations of intimate partner violence through both...
Alan Bean University of Birmingham Student Art History Nineteenth century landscape painting Children in nineteenth century painting Religious subjects in nineteenth century painting The meaning of the term 'sentiment' as used by contemporaries
Alexander Lynch Student Literary Studies British fiction and poetry of the long nineteenth century Religion and literature Philosophy and literature Modern political and social thought History and theory of criticism
Alina Ghimpu-Hague Royal Holloway, University of London Student Literary Studies readers, reading, and reception; genre writing; participatory culture; multi-modal narratives from the 19th century to the present.
Allison Gale University of Portsmouth Student History PhD research into Victorian Poor Law education with specific emphasis on district schools.
Almudena Jiménez Virosta University of Fribourg (Switzerland) Student Comparative Literature – Hispanic Studies, English Literature and Art History I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Media Studies and Fine Arts from the University of Seville, Spain, and a Master’s in Hispanic Studies and Comparative Literature from the University of...
Amanda Vernon Independent scholar Literary Studies Nineteenth-century literature and religion Victorian reading practice and spiritual practice George MacDonald Literary form Music
Amy Wilcockson University of Glasgow Student Literary Studies Amy Wilcockson is a Research Assistant at the University of Glasgow, working on a new edition of the poems of Robert Fergusson. Her own research is concentrated on editing the...
Andrew Hewitt University of Hull Student Literary Studies Thomas Hardy Joseph Conrad The history of emotions
Angelica Belloli G. d\'Annunzio University, Chieti-Pescara PhD student Literary Studies My research examines the intersection of class, body, and labour in Victorian, Edwardian, and inter-war fiction, particularly within the realms of social problem novels, proletarian fiction, and...
Anja Hartl University of Konstanz University/college academic Literary Studies In my post-doc project, I am investigating shame in the nineteenth-century novel. Conceptualising shame as a central affect of the Victorian Age, I am interested in the interface between individual...
Anna Champion University of Chichester Student History Currently writing my PhD on the lives of Katie, Nelly, Jane, Annie and Maggie Cobden, who were the daughters of Richard Cobden. My research is based on their surviving letters...
Anna McCullough University of St Andrews Student Literary Studies My research interests lie in nineteenth-century evolutionary science and literature, focusing particularly on children’s literature, fairy tales, and evolutionary theories that emphasize...
Anna Price Royal Holloway, University of London University/college academic Literary Studies Thesis topic: Representations of rowing in 19thC literary and visual arts. History of rowing Amateur and leisure sport Literature of Georgie Eliot, Charles Dickens, Jerome K Jerome and...
Anna Rivers University of Warwick Student Literary Studies
Anna Ulrika Stark University of Portsmouth PhD student Literary Studies I'm a first-year PhD student at the University of Portsmouth focussing on literary adaptations of Sherlock Holmes post-Doyle. I am also interested in Victorian literature in...
Antonia Saunders The Open University PhD Research Student Literary Studies My part-time PhD looks at the construction of a Jewish Identity in histories and novels of the nineteenth century, and considers the literary and historiographical contexts of representations of...
Asa Brunet-Jailly Student Literary Studies - Victorian literature - the novel - Anglo-Jewish literature - the Anglo-Jewish Victorian novel - Victorian preoccupations with death and mourning - Walking in literature -...
Ayesha Gaye Durham University Student Literary Studies My PhD research explores the representations of blackness and biracialism in British literature c. 1830-1880. It combines the writings of both Black and White writers of the Victorian era, including...
Barbara Stensland Cardiff Metropolitan University University/college academic Literary Studies Victorian hysteria and contemporary Briquet's Syndrome. Medicinal patriarchy and medical humanities. Jean-Martin Charcot and Multiple Sclerosis.
Ben Hall University of Glasgow Student Performance Studies My PhD explores how the human-animal boundary was staged and experienced within Victorian freakshows, examining acts such as Julia Pastrana, Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy and Joseph Merrick the Elephant...
Brenda Metcalfe University of York Student Literary Studies PhD student researching Victorian women writers, incorporating the study of women, gender and sexuality, and with a particular focus on Eliza Lynn Linton.
Brittani Allen University of South Florida Student Literary Studies