BAVS Membership Directory

NameInstitutionAcademic StatusMain DisciplineResearch Interests
Professor Georges Letissier University of Nantes (France) University/college academic Literary Studies Neo-Victorian Studies Charles Dickens: reception and somatic readings of Dickens George Eliot and reception
Professor Helen Small University of Oxford University/college academic Literary Studies Victorian literature, with special interests in the history and practice of realism, and the stylistics of poetry The history of the humanities Public moralism Moral philosophy The meaning and...
Professor Hilary Fraser Birkbeck, University of london University/college academic Literary Studies I am currently working on a book on art writing for Oxford University Press. I am also preparing a scholarly edition of Walter Pater's The Renaissance for the new 10-volume...
Professor Inger Brodey University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University/college academic Literary Studies History of the Novel Women's writing Jane Austen Culture of Sensibiliity Interdisciplinary Romanticism
Professor John Holmes University of Birmingham University/college academic Literary Studies Evolution and literature, esp. poetry C19th visual art, esp. Pre-Raphaelitism C19th architecture, esp. museums
Professor Katharine Cockin University of Essex University/college academic Literary Studies
Professor Katharine Cockin University of Essex University/college academic Literary Studies My research focuses on the lives and work of Ellen Terry (1847-1928), the nineteenth-century actor and her daughter, Edith Craig (1869-1947) who was an influential theatre director and activist in...
Professor Laurel Brake Birkbeck, University of London Independent scholar Literary Studies My research interests are interdisciplinary, and include 19C print culture, media history, 19C history, aesthetics, gender, the visual arts, bibliography, digital humanities, Walter and Clara Pater...
Professor Luisa Villa University of Genova University/college academic Literary Studies The late-nineteenth century: aestheticism, naturalism, decadence, early modernism (Pater, Symons, Machen, James, Olive Schreiner, Gissing, Stevenson, Conrad) The Early and Mid-Victorian Novel...
Professor Maire Ni Fhlathuin University of Nottingham University/college academic Literary Studies Literature and culture of British India; The East India Company; Nineteenth-century periodicals; Women's writing, especially poetry and travel-writing.
Professor Margaret Cassidy Adelphi University University/college academic media history media and children media history history of public education history of new media; the introduction of new media into society
Professor Mariusz Misztal Pedagogical University of Krakow University/college academic History I am interested in Queen Victoria's family and her Household. I have published a biography of the Queen (in Polish); I have published parts of the diary of Robert Ferguson,...
Professor Mary Fairclough University of York University/college academic Literary Studies Intersections between literature, science, politics and religion in the long nineteenth century. Currently working on women writers and devotional feeling.
Professor Michael Sanders University of Manchester University/college academic Literary Studies Chartist literature and culture Working-Class Culture Chartism C19 Radicalism
Professor Miho Nishimura Nagoya Gakuin University University/college academic Literary Studies the reality and literary representations of servants, 'fallen women' and their accommodation, philanthropy, same-sex interaction and communication, links between literature and...
Professor Rachel Cowgill University of Huddersfield University/college academic Music Music and British culture in the Victorian period, including opera and theatre
Professor Regenia Gagnier UoExeter University/college academic Literary Studies Geopolitics of language and literary migration; world literatures and political economy since 1830; geopolitics of aesthetics
Professor Richard Salmon University of Leeds University/college academic Literary Studies Victorian literature, especially the novel; Henry James; W.M. Thackeray; the Bildungsroman The literary profession and authorship studies Nineteenth-century print culture, including...
Professor SHU CHUAN YAN National University of Kaohsiung University/college academic Literary Studies Victorian Literature and Culture, Victorian Periodicals, women's studies
Professor Sucheta Bhattacharya Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India University/college academic Literary Studies Interested in Victorian popular literature. Also late Victorian and turn of the century cultural and political scenario and the emergence of woman-power in the late Victorian years. Colonial Bangla...
Professor Tabitha Sparks McGill University University/college academic Literary Studies Tabitha Sparks specializes in the Victorian novel: its development, cultural influence and generic complexity. She also works on feminist narratology and medicine in Victorian culture (and...
Professor Tomoko Kanda Nihon University University/college academic Literary Studies I work on nineteenth century literature, with a particular interest in the Victorian periodical press and women's writing.
Professor Yukio Kaneko Seinan Gakuin University University/college academic Literary Studies My current research interest is Englishness, especially English attachment to the countryside in the nineteenth to early twentieth century. So the Country House and the cottages are the...
Rachael Bailey-Gibson University of Leicester University/college academic History History of Psychiatry Victorian Asylums Essex Pauper Lunatic Asylum [Warley Hospital] Victorian Female Psychiatrists History of Medicine Children in the Victorian...
Rachel Cleaver University of Liverpool Student Literary Studies