The Centre for Victorian Studies
PhD students
Current students
| Name | Research Project Title |
|---|---|
| Rawan Alnefaee | The Brontë Family's Writings About Illness and Recovery |
| Hannah Burden | Reading with the Queen: The Literary Consumption and Contribution of Queen Victoria |
| Michelle Dean | The Life and Works of the Jourdain Sisters |
| Florence Heath | Self and Sisterhood: Female Identity and Relationships in the Lives and Writing of the Potter Sisters |
| Azza Hussen | What it Means to Dream: Dickens’s Use of Dreams in the Context of Early to Mid-Nineteenth Century Dream Theories |
| Miyuki Kamezawa | Thomas Hardy and Masculinity |
| Chelsey Pinney | 'A Theatre of Calamity': Tracing the Carnivalization of Sentiment in Nineteenth-Century Sensation Literature |
| Kris Siefken | Negotiating the Labyrinth: The Interplay of City and Psychology in Dickens's Fiction |
| Lisu Wang | Elizabeth Gaskell and Victorian Society |
| Wen-Wei Wu | Empire, Pathology and the Oriental Imagery: On Victorian Narratives of Addiction |
| Amber Vella | The Pregnant Body in Late Georgian Britain |
When I was considering postgraduate study the interdisciplinary nature of Leicester's Victorian Studies Centre greatly appealed to me, including the opportunity to mix modules like 'The Brontës', 'Victorian Society', and 'Evolution and Entropy'. I was also impressed by the Library's extensive collection of Victorian periodicals, representing the Centre's historic interest in nineteenth-century print culture. Throughout my MA and PhD in the Centre, friendly discussions with tutors (and guest speakers on the always fascinating Spring Seminar Series) fleshed out my view both of Victorian culture and of academic careers. Without doubt both the expansive scholarly and career-focused training I received at Leicester were instrumental in making my subsequent application for a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship successful. I am currently completing this Fellowship at the University of Birmingham.
Past students
| Name | Research title |
| Dr Mona Albassam | The Politics of the Female Plain Body |
| Dr Sophie Almond | The Medical Women's Federation, 1879-1948 |
| Dr Ruth Ashton | Disabled Domesticity: Representations of Disability in Nineteenth-Century Literature |
| Dr Derek Ball | Mathematics in George Eliot's Novels |
| Dr Kathleen L. Bell | The Diaspora of Dickens: Charles Dickens and the Writers of the American South |
| Dr Rachel Bates (nee Anchor) | Curating the Crimea: The Cultural Afterlife of a Conflict |
| Dr Danielle Benyon-Payne | The Suicide Question in Late-Victorian Gothic Fiction: Representations of Suicide in their Historical, Cultural and Social Contexts |
| Dr Jenny Bloodworth | Clotilde Graves: Journalist and Playwright |
| Dr Susan Boettcher | An Edition of the Journals of Adlard Welby, 1843-56 |
| Dr Lisa Coar | 'Abandon far all ye who enter here': (Dis)ordering the Male Body, 1800-1910 |
| Dr Anjna Chouhan | Shakespearean Drama in the Victorian Period |
| Dr Richard Fallon | Reshaping Dinosaurs: The Popularisation of Palaeontology in Anglo-American Culture, 1877-1921. Now published. |
| Dr Jacqueline Favaloro | Charlotte Brontë and the Power of Faerie |
| Dr Hayley Flynn | The Dream Debate and the Periodical in the 1860s |
| Dr Katie Heathman | The Debased Street Music of the Vulgar: Folk Song, the Novel and the City in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Britain |
| Dr Tomoko Kanda | The Early Journalism of Eliza Meteyard |
| Dr Catherine Malcolmson | Constructing Charles Dickens, 1900-1940 |
| Dr Clare Mendes | Representations of the New Woman in the 1890s Woman's Press |
| Dr Jennifer Miller | Dickensian Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century Theatrical Adaptations of the Novels |
| Dr Pamela Ormrod | 'An Entirely Different Order of Writer': A Reevaluation of the Novels of Dinah Mulock Craik |
| Dr Nazia Parveen | Aestheticism in Pre-Raphaelitism and Science |
| Dr Jonathan Potter | Visuality and Representation in British Fiction 1840-1870 |
| Dr Emma Probett | Jane Austen and Elizabeth Gaskell’s C19th Novels of Manners: Narrative Experiments and Developments with the Community Setting |
| Dr Margriet Schippers | Elizabeth Gaskell, Citizen of the World: Civic Lessons. Now published. |
| Rebecca Shuttleworth (MPhil) | Susanna Watts and Elizabeth Heyrick: Women's Writing in the Midlands 1750-1850 |
| Dr Natasha Stoyce | 'Theatres of War': The Experiences of the Serbian Unit of the Scottish Women's Hospitals During the Great War |
| Mai Tsumura (MPhil) | Love and Justice: John Ruskin's Theory and Practice of Charity |
| Dr Tadakazu Suzuki | British Biography and the Science of Selfhood, 1895-1939 |
| Dr Matthew Wale | 'The Sympathy of a Crowd': Periodicals and the Practices of Natural History in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Now published. |