BAVS Membership Directory

NameInstitutionAcademic StatusMain DisciplineResearch Interests
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
Rachel Teukolsky Vanderbilt University, USA University/college academic Literary Studies I study art writing, aesthetics, and media history in 19th-c Britain. I have published two books: _The Literate Eye: Victorian Art Writing and Modernist Aesthetics_ (Oxford UP, 2009) and _Picture...
Rebecca Bruce Nottingham Trent University University/college academic History & Travel Culture I am currently undertaking my PhD, researching how ancient Egyptian mummies were treated and perceived during the nineteenth century. I consider how specific events contributed to ‘Egyptomania’...
Rebecca Hamilton University of Aberdeen University/college academic Literary Studies I am looking at narrative silences in multivocal Victorian fiction
Rebecca Shipp Student Literary Studies I focus on literary rural studies of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century (particularly the interwar period). Other research interests include Thomas Hardy, Victorian religion, and boyhood...
Rebekah Musk Independent scholar Literary Studies Queer spatial theory as a tool for analysing nineteenth century texts. Coastal and maritime spaces in literature. Science and literature. Plants in literature.
Rev Karen Gardiner University of Nottingham University/college academic Literary Studies Eschatology in the Victorian era. Lewis Carroll/ Charles Dodgson. F.D. Maurice and the Cambridge Apostles. Reform at Christ Church, Oxford. Changing patterns of belief in the Victorian...
revd canon dr joanna collicutt mcgrath university of oxford University/college academic Psychology of religion My research interests are very broad across the disciplines of neuroscience, psychology, religion, and spirituality. However, I have a longstanding side-interest in Victorian art, specifically...
Richard Fallon University/college academic Literary Studies I am interested in the relationship between geology, palaeontology, and literature during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with an especial focus on dinosaurs and lost-world fiction....
Roberta Zanasi University/college academic Literary Studies I deal with Victorian letter-writing culture across the various classes and how it is represented in literature and visual art. The scope of my work extends from popular literature to...
Rosalind Crone University/college academic History 19th century social history criminal justice history prisons and punishment popular culture education and literacy social institutions
Rosie Crocker Student Literary Studies
Ross Conway University of Birmingham Student Literary Studies Ancient Egypt; The Gothic; Mummy studies; Travel writing; Reception studies; Food politics; Cannibalism.
Ruth Derham Independent scholar History My research surrounds the practices of the Victorian Divorce Court and changing attitudes towards marriage and divorce. Recent publication: Decadent Divorce: Scandal and Sensation in Victorian...
Ruth Walbank University of Warwick Student Literary Studies Ruth-Anne Walbank is a PhD candidate at the University of Warwick, researching ecological hellscapes in the long nineteenth century. With a background in eco-theology in education following her time...
Samuel Love Student Art History Currently working on minor edits for my PhD thesis 'Outraged Beauty: The Dionysian Retinue and the Lineages of British Aestheticism, 1918-1930', I am primarily interested in classical...
Sara Cole Lancaster University Student Literary Studies The relationship between science, satire and Romantic period literature.
Sarah French University of Sussex & Hastings Museum and Art Gallery Student Art History Museums Photography Collecting Material Culture Visual Culture Travel Empire Post-colonialism Decolonisation Literature
Sarah Hardy University/college academic Art History William and Evelyn De Morgan
SHINO HOSHI Student Literary Studies
Simon Morgan University/college academic History The history of nineteenth-century political culture Radical politics Gender history The history of urban elites The history of celebrity