University of Strathclyde

Beastly Encounters: Human-animal relations in The Illustrated Police News & late Victorian & Edwardian culture

Academic History:

2015: PhD in English

2014-15: MLitt in Literature, Culture & Place with Distinction

2010-14: BA in English with First Class Honours

Supervisors:

Professor Erica Fudge

Dr Sarah Edwards

Research Interests:

• Animal studies
• Victorian literature & culture
• Nineteenth-century journalism
• Urban theory
• Edwardian literature & culture; Gothic studies; Periodical studies; Print culture

Scholarships:

2015. AHRC DTP Studentship

2014. Carnegie-Cameron Postgraduate Taught Bursary

Awards:

2014. English Studies Class Prize (University of Strathclyde), "awarded to the Honours Student with the highest overall average (English Studies or Journalism & Creative Writing)"

2012. Media Volunteer of the Year (University of Strathclyde Students' Association)

Publications:

Conference presentation: "The City that Jack Built: Using urban theory to understand the representation of animals in the Illustrated Police News, 1864-1910". Being Interdisciplinary in Animal Studies: A Postgraduate Symposium. University of Strathclyde, 18-19 May 2016. AHRC funded.

First published: 14 September 2015