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Professor of Literature and Culture, English and American Studies, The University of Manchester

author of:

  • Consuming History: Historians and Heritage in Contemporary Popular Culture (2004)
  • The Historical Novel (2009)
  • Remaking History: The Past in Contemporary Historical Fictions (2015)
research interests: Public History, the Historical Novel, Literature and culture of the English Revolution

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Associate Professor in English and Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge

author of:

  • John Clare and the Place of Poetry (2009)
  • Art of Escape (2020) – winner of the International Award for Womens’ Writing in Italy (Premio di Scrittura femminile)
  • Scale (2022) – described in the Irish Times as ‘a book of deep sonic attention’
  • Lyric Listening” (2024)
research interests: Romantic poetry, Poetry and poetics from 1780 to present day, Literary margins and the marginal, Cultural history of listening, Sound studies, Lyric studies

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Emeritus Professor of Victorian Literature,Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, Chair of Tennyson Society and Editor of The Tennyson Research Bulletin

author of:

  • Poems by Two Brothers: the Poetry of Tennyson’s father and uncle (1993)
  • The Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Tennyson (2011)
  • Dickens and the Sentimental Tradition  (2012)

editor of:

  • Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers (2014)
  • Ruskin and Education (2019)
research interests: Victorian Writers and the Environment, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, Science and Religion in the Age of Darwin

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