BAVS Membership Directory

NameInstitutionAcademic StatusMain DisciplineResearch Interests
Ms Natasha Kennedy Queen's University Belfast Student Literary Studies My current field of research is examining memory within Victorian Utopian and Dystopian literature. As such, I am interested in; science fiction the history of science mental...
Ms Nerida Brand The University of Oxford Independent scholar Literary Studies Fin-de-siecle literature including the New Woman, aestheticism and decadence. Gender studies and gender-specific traditions of aestheticism Psychology and subjectivity Intersection of literary...
Ms Nina Moeller University of Nottingham Student Art History My research interests center in the history of medieval revival art and architecture. I research how the medieval era is used for entertainment in the 20th century. Connected to this I...
Ms Patricia Ayrton University of Edinburgh Student Literary Studies Emily Bronte's poetry. In particular her transcription of her EJB notebook of poems and the subsequent textual transmission. The historical transmission of text including the effects that editorial...
Ms rachel savage University of East Anglia (UEA) Student History Landscape Historian, studying for a PhD, researching the gendering of place and space in domestic planning and garden design in the long nineteenth century.
Ms Reyam Rammahi University of Oxford Offer Holder Literary Studies Empire and the Orient, the Romantic and Victorian Gothic, the Oriental woman in Romantic and Victorian British literature.
Ms Rhiannon Lindsay-Andrews Queen's University Belfast Student Literary Studies Gothic literature, particularly vampires and other supernatural forces Late 18th century and early 19th century literature Folklore and how literature reinvents it Cultural anthropology
Ms sally blackburn University of Liverpool Student Literary Studies Late Victorian, early twentieth century science Psychology/ psychoanalysis Vernon Lee Mapping Queer theory & histories
Ms Silvia Romano University of Catania PhD Student Literary Studies My research interests span from the late Victorian period to contemporary literature. In particular I'm investigating the work of Jane Ellen Harrison, Michael Field, Virginia Woolf and Daphne...
Ms Susan Beckham University of York Student Art History Susie Beckham is a PhD student at the University of York, where she is undertaking research (supervised by Professor Liz Prettejohn) to identify when critics first comprehended the emergence of...
Ms. Caroline Abbott University of Glasgow Independent scholar Environmental Humanities I am an environmental historian working at the intersections of animal and more-than-human histories with special interest in the intersections of gender, folklore, print media, and literature within...
Ms. Justine Houyaux Université de Liège PhD Researcher Literary Studies My research focuses on the transfer strategies of realia (culture-bound items) in the French translations of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland from 1869 to 2009.
Ms. Tomoko Hashino Kansai Gaidai University/college academic Literary Studies
Mx Emma Catan Northumbria University PhD Researcher Literary Studies I am a PhD researcher, and my project explores cross-dressing and 'transgression in Neo-Victorian literary spaces. My main research interests include feminist geography, gender studies and queer...
Naomi Daw University of Sussex University/college academic Art History Popular culture - 19th century to the present Cultures of travel Photographic history Photography and travel Pre-Raphaelitism Aestheticism Photographic technologies Magic...
Nat Reeve Royal Holloway, University of London Student Literary Studies/Creative Writing/Art History Queer theory, writing and history The Pre-Raphaelites (especially Elizabeth Siddal) Historical fiction Medievalism Ecocriticism
Natasha Booth-Johnson Student Literary Studies Queer Theory Suffrage Sexology Decadent Studies
Nicola Kirkby King's College, London Student Literary Studies Literature and Infrastructure Railways Mobilities
Niketa Narayan University of Cambridge Student Literary Studies
Olivia Wrafter Student Literary Studies
Paolo D'Indinosante Sapienza University of Rome Student Literary Studies My main research interests lie in British literature (particularly modern and contemporary poetry) and culture (particularly imperial culture in the long nineteenth century). My doctoral project...
Pat Colling University of Leeds Student Literary Studies I am completing a PhD in the slum novels of George Gissing.
Peter J. Capuano University/college academic Literary Studies The Victorian novel, Dickens studies, digital humanities, science and technology
Prof (Emeritus) David Glover University of Southampton University/college academic Literary Studies Migration, Asylum, and the Citizen-Subject Late Victorian Literature and Early Modernism Social Philosophy and Cultural Theory Popular Fiction
Prof Douglas Kerr Hong Kong University Honorary Professor Literary Studies George Orwell (2 books) Arthur Conan Doyle (1 monograph; also General Editor of the Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Arthur Conan Doyle) Joseph Conrad Colonial Discourse...