Members and advisory board

Staff from across the university are actively involved in the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, including from English Literature and Language, History, Germanic Studies, Hispanic Studies, French, Russian, Architecture, Music and Philosophy.

Advisory board

Professor Anna Barton

Reader in Victorian Literature, Co-Director of the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies
School of English

My primary research interests lie in nineteenth-century literature, particularly Victorian poetry.

Email address: a.j.barton@sheffield.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 114 222 8483

English Literature

Professor Anna Barton

Reader in Victorian Literature, Co-Director of the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies
School of English

My primary research interests lie in nineteenth-century literature, particularly Victorian poetry.

Email address: a.j.barton@sheffield.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 114 222 8483

Professor Jane Hodson

Head of the School of English
School of English

Later Modern English and Historical Sociolinguistics. As a literary scholar my specialism lies in prose of the Romantic period.

Email address: j.hodson@sheffield.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 114 222 8471

Dr Hamish Mathison

Lecturer
School of English

Eighteenth-century Scottish literature; connections between poetry and gothic writing in the eighteenth century; print culture and patriotic sentiment in eighteenth-century Britain.

Email address: h.mathison@sheffield.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 114 222 8456

Professor Angela Wright

Professor of Romantic Literature
School of English

I was appointed as a lecturer in Romantic Literature here at Sheffield University in 2002, became a senior lecturer in 2010, and was promoted to a personal chair in Romantic Literature in 2015.

Email address: a.h.wright@sheffield.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 114 222 8488

Professor Andrew Smith

Professor of Nineteenth-Century English Literature
School of English

Gothic of the late eighteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century.

Email address: andrew.smith1@sheffield.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 114 222 0217

Dr John Miller

Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature
School of English

Animals, ecology and empire from the nineteenth century to the present, with particular emphasis on the late Victorian period.

Email address: john.miller@sheffield.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 114 222 0194

Dr Amber Regis

Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature
School of English

Victorian life writing. The work and legacies of radical and transgressive figures, particularly women writers and “queer” artists from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.