Co-directors
Dr Laura Eastlake
Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Co-Director EHU19
Contect: [email protected]
Staff
Professor Alyson Brown
Associate Head of History, Geography and Social Sciences
Contect: [email protected]
Dan Copley
Archivist – Library and Learning Services
Postgraduate researchers
Fellows
Dr Madeline Potter
BARS/BAVS ‘Nineteenth Century Matters’ Fellow
‘Blood at ‘Heaven’s Gate’: John Keble and Bram Stoker’.
My project explores the figure of Dracula in Bram Stoker’s eponymous novel as a theological monster – a product of 19th-century Irish literature and the Oxford Movement. I show how, like Le Fanu, Stoker locates the divine in the bodies of monsters, articulating a material theology.
Dr Lucy Whitehead
‘Gone West: Victorian Novelists’ Manuscripts and the American Archive, 1890–1963’.
This project investigates the transatlantic trade in modern British literary manuscripts that began with the collecting of the American financier John Pierpont Morgan in the late nineteenth century..
Dr Joan Passey
‘Smothered in Onions’: Abject Consumption in Wilkie Collins’s Fiction and Nonfiction’.
This project investigates images of food, eating, drinking, and abject consumption in the wider works of Wilkie Collins and his own letters to demonstrate the multivalent ways in which Collins employed consumption to represent larger contemporaneous anxieties about the body and self in society.
Dr Rita Dashwood
Postdoctoral Fellow: ‘The Romantic Ridiculous’
‘Rita specialises in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century studies, with a particular focus on gender, property, and economics. She is the author of Women and Property Ownership in Jane Austen (2022)