Speaker
Sally Shuttleworth is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, where she was previously Head of the Humanities Division. She has published widely on the inter-relations of medicine, science and literature. Her books include Charlotte Brontë and Victorian Psychology (1996), The Mind of the Child: Child Development in Literature, Science and Medicine, 1840-1900 (2010), and the co-authored Anxious Times: Medicine and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2019). She is currently working on a book on travel for health.
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Andrew Mangham is Professor of English Literature at the University of Reading. He is the author of We Are All Monsters: How Deviant Organisms Came to Define Us (2023), The Science of Starving in Victorian Literature, Medicine and Political Economy (2020), Dickens’s Forensic Realism: Truth, Bodies, Evidence (2017) and Violent Women and Sensation Fiction (2007). He is editor and co-editor of several volumes on the intersections between medicine and literature in the nineteenth century.
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Dinah Roe is Reader in English Literature at Oxford Brookes University, specialising in Pre-Raphaelitism and Victorian Poetry. She is currently editing Christina Rossetti’s Complete Poems for the Longman Annotated English Poets series, and working on a British Academy funded project examining the connections between Rossetti’s creativity and her work as a carer.
Chair
Dr Ben Grant is a Lecturer in English Literature in the Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford. He has a research background in postcolonial studies and cultural translation. His first book, Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis and Burton: Power Play of Empire (2009), was about the iconic Victorian explorer and translator, Richard Francis Burton, who began his career as a spy in British India. Ben is also interested in all forms of brevity in literature, and his second book, The Aphorism and Other Short Forms (2016), aims to give a consolidated picture of the exciting and often marginalised genres of the aphorism and related short forms, such as the proverb and the fragment. Ben is currently working on life writing and autobiographical fiction, particularly in the work of Jenny Diski.
