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Dr Vybarr Cregan-Reid
(BA, MA, DPhil, Sussex)
| Lecturer | |
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| Phone: 01227 824185 | Office: NC 35 |
| Email: v.cregan-reid@kent.ac.uk |
Interests
Nineteenth-century literature, historiography, science and anthropology are the principal subjects of my research which is based on concepts of time and history in the Victorian period. My research examines the ways in which narratives of origination (such as the deluge or the myth of Atlantis) are given cultural, literary and iconographical representation in the nineteenth century. I am currently writing a monograph entitled Drowned Worlds: Gilgamesh and the Historical Sublime in Victorian Culture which focuses on the discovery of The Epic of Gilgamesh in 1872 and the tremendous influence that it exerted upon theories of geology, history, narrative and aesthetics in the Victorian period.
Among my other interests are gender, degeneration and death in Victorian literary and visual culture. I have published work on Dickens, E.M Forster, Macaulay and Kingsley. I am also interested in Victorian representations of water and the ways in which they are connected to notions of gender, disease, cleanliness, history and the law.
Research supervision
I am interested in supervising research in any area of the nineteenth century, but would particularly welcome work on nineteenth-century science, Victorian history and historiography, the sublime and gender (especially queer theory or the representation of women).
Professional Activities
I have been a member of the British Association of Victorian Studies for six years.
Teaching
Undergraduate:
- EN308: Romanticism & Critical Theory (Stage 1)
- EN325: Critical Practice (Stage 1) - Lectures
- EN640: Nineteenth-Century Literature (Stage 3)
- EN580: Dickens and Victorian England (Stage 3)
Selected Publications
Some Recent Chapters and Articles:
- ‘Mr Smith and Dr Suess: Originary Narrative and the Late-Victorians’ in The Victorians and the Ancient World: Archaeology and Classicism in Nineteenth-Century Culture edited by Richard Pearson (Cambridge Scholars Press), 2006.
- ‘Macaulay and the Historical Sublime; or, Forgetting the Past and the Future’ Nineteenth-Century Prose; Spring, 2006
- ‘Drowning in Early Dickens’ in Textual Practice, (19.1) Feb. 2005.
- ‘Bodies, Boundaries and Queer Waters: Drowning and Prosopopœia in Later Dickens’ in “Dickens and Sex”, Critical Survey, (17.2) Summer, 2005.
- ‘Water Defences: The Arts of Swimming in Nineteenth-Century Culture’ in Critical Survey, (16.3) Winter, 2004.
Some Recent Chapters and Articles:
- ‘Mr Smith and Dr Suess: Originary Narrative and the Late-Victorians’ in The Victorians and the Ancient World: Archaeology and Classicism in Nineteenth-Century Culture edited by Richard Pearson (Cambridge Scholars Press), 2006.
- ‘Macaulay and the Historical Sublime; or, Forgetting the Past and the Future’ Nineteenth-Century Prose; Spring, 2006
- ‘Drowning in Early Dickens’ in Textual Practice, (19.1) Feb. 2005.
- ‘Bodies, Boundaries and Queer Waters: Drowning and Prosopopœia in Later Dickens’ in “Dickens and Sex”, Critical Survey, (17.2) Summer, 2005.
- ‘Water Defences: The Arts of Swimming in Nineteenth-Century Culture’ in Critical Survey, (16.3) Winter, 2004.