BAVS Membership Directory

NameInstitutionAcademic StatusMain DisciplineResearch Interests
Niketa Narayan University of Cambridge 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...
Prof Fergus McGhee St Catharine\'s College, Cambridge University/college academic Literary Studies Victorian literature Poetry of the long nineteenth century Literary form and epistemology Literature and philosophy Literature and theology Literature and psychology The...
Prof Graham Whitehouse Independent scholar Religion All aspects of religion in 19th century, including its interaction with politics. Art in the Victorian era
Prof Karen Sayer University/college academic History My work focuses on the intersection of nature and culture, first and second order nature, as see in the farmed animal, rural landscapes, and intersections of human and non-human animal...
Prof. Ana Birrento University of Evora University/college academic Literary Studies English Literature and Culture; 19th century novel Early 20th century novel Questions of Identity and Life Writing Geocriticism
Prof. Charles LaPorte University of Washington University/college academic Literary Studies Poetics, Victorian Religion and Secularization, Victorian Literary Theory, Victorian Shakespeare
Prof. Felix Sprang University of Siegen University/college academic Literary Studies I am mainly interested in the place of literature in the realm of social reform and political economy - with Carlyle as a focus. I am also working on Darwin's...
Professor (Emeritus) Brian Maidment Liverpool John Moores University Independent scholar Literary Studies Nineteenth century print culture Nineteenth century periodicals Caricature and humorous prints Writing by working men and women in the nineteenth century Illustration
Professor ALAN RAUCH UNC Charlotte University/college academic Literary Studies Cultural Studies of Science Animal Studies Eco-criticism Kingsley, W. H. Hudson Women and the Dissemination of Science Private Subscription Libraries Visual & Material Culture
Professor Alastair Owens Queen Mary University of London University/college academic Geography I am an historical geographer and social and economic historian working on nineteenth and twentieth-century Britain and have a particular interest in London. Key research themes: 1) historical...
Professor Andrew Davies University of Liverpool University/college academic History Crime and punishment Youth violence
Professor Andrew King University of Greenwich University/college academic Literary Studies popular fiction throughout the century publishing history periodicals conceptual difference of "work" and "leisure" gender fin-de-siecle writing
Professor Anna Despotopoulou National and Kapodistrian University of Athens University/college academic Literary Studies Victorian fiction Victorian science and technology Victorian transport (railway) Victorian travel and mobility Women
Professor Anna Enrichetta Soccio Università G. d'Annunzio, Chieti and Pescara University/college academic Literary Studies My main research interest is Victorian literature and culture George Meredith Charles Dickens Elizabeth Gaskell Thomas Hardy The Victorian Novel Victorian Women poets The Twentieth-century...
Professor Anne Schwan Edinburgh Napier University University/college academic Literary Studies Prison writing Crime writing Gender studies British-German relations
Professor Barbara Straumann English Department, University of Zurich University/college academic Literary Studies the long nineteenth century (Neo-)Victorian literature and culture gender film visual culture mediality celebrity culture queenship economic criticism debt gender and money feminist...
Professor Beatrice Laurent Université Bordeaux-Montaigne University/college academic Cultural Studies I am particularly interested in the conceptual overlap between art, literature, science and society in Victorian Britain. My theoretical framework is basically New Historicism.
Professor Christopher Walsh University of Chester University/college academic Literary Studies Victorian poetry, fiction and non-fictional prose. Literature and theology. The poetry of Robert Browning. Dickens and the Victorian novel.
Professor DR SIMON J JAMES Durham University/college academic Literary Studies Dickens Gissing Wells Masculinity Money Memory Editing Railways
Professor Françoise Baillet Université Caen Normandie University/college academic Cultural Studies My research generally addresses the 19th c. illustrated press as a discursive and ideological construct. Current projects include essays on the early Victorian trade press and the...