Dr Rosie Whitcombe (she/her)

School of English

AHRC-sponsored Research and Innovation Associate

r.e.whitcombe@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 0196

Jessop West

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Dr Rosie Whitcombe
School of English
Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
Sheffield
S3 7RA

Profile: I am an AHRC-sponsored Research and Innovation Associate working on the 'Ann Radcliffe, Then and Now' project. I studied for my BA and MA at the University of Sheffield, before taking a PhD at Birmingham City University. I have published on a range of topics pertaining to Gothic and Romantic literature. My essay, ‘Connection, Consolation, and the Power of Distance in the Letters of John Keats’, won the 2020 Keats-Shelley Essay Prize.

Qualifications: PhD, Birmingham City University; MA and BA, University of Sheffield.

Research interests: My current research project focuses on the reception of Gothic writer Ann Radcliffe. I am very interested in how her reputation was shaped and manipulated by the press, and how she was treated by the literary establishment after her death. My other research specialisms include eighteenth/nineteenth-century letters and letter writing; Gothic fiction, 18th century-present; Romantic literature.

Publications

Rosie W (2024) "The Lady's Talent for Description Leads Her to Excess": Radcliffe, Landscape, and Gender In Mary G & Kathleen H (Ed.), Religious Horror and the Ecogothic (pp. 35-52). Rowman & Littlefield

Whitcombe R, Vicky C & Dawn H (2018) The Life and Adventures of Harvey Teasdale, The Converted Clown and Man Monkey. Victorian Secrets.