Staff Profile:Dr Andrew Mangham

Name:

Dr Andrew Mangham

Job Title:

Lecturer

Responsibilities:

Within the department I convene modules in:

• Victorian Gothic
• Crime, Medicine, and the Victorians
• Nineteenth-century Novel

I have also contributed to courses in:

• Women's Writing and Feminist Theory
• Revisioning Shakespeare
• Languages of Literature

Areas of Interest:

My primary research interest is in Victorian literature and culture. I am particularly interested in the intersection between crime, medicine, and literature. I am currently working on a book entitled Dickens and the Anatomy of Murder, which aims to reassess Dickens's works through a nuanced understanding of nineteenth-century forensic medicine. I have also developed a research interest in those areas in which I teach, particularly in the Gothic and feminist criticism.

Research groups / Centres:

Publications:

Recent publications reflect my interests and include:

• Violent Women and Sensation Fiction: Crime, Medicine and Victorian Popular Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
• (ed.) Wilkie Collins: Interdisciplinary Essays (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007).
• (ed. with Greta Depledge) The Female Body in Professional Encounter (Liverpool University Press, 2009).

I have also published

• '"What Could I Do?": Nineteenth-Century Psychology and the Horrors of Masculinity in
• The Woman in White', in Victorian Sensations: Essays on a Scandalous Genre, ed. by Kimberly Harrison and Richard Fantina (Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 2006), pp. 115-125.
• 'Mental States: Political and Psychological Conflict in Antonina', in Wilkie Collins: Interdisciplinary Essays, ed. by Andrew Mangham (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, February 2007), pp. 102-118.
• 'How Do I Look? Dysmorphophobia and Obsession at the Fin-de-Siècle', in Neurology and Literature at the Fin-de-Siècle, ed. by Anne Stiles (Hampshire: Palgrave, August 2007).
• With Greta Depledge, 'Gynaecological Controversy and Victorian Fiction', in (Re)creating Science in the Nineteenth-Century, ed. by Amanda Mordavsky Caleb (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, November 2007).
• 'Armadale and the Criminal Abortionists', in Armadale: Wilkie Collins and the Dark Threads of Life, ed. by Mariaconcetta Costantini (Rome: Aracne, 2008).
• [In progress] 'Wilkie Collins' in Blackwell Companion to Crime Fiction, ed. by Charles J. Rzepka and Lee Horsley (2008).
• 'Hysterical Fictions: Mid-Nineteenth-Century Medical Constructions of Hysteria and the Fiction of Mary Elizabeth Braddon', Wilkie Collins Society Journal, 6 (November 2003), pp.35-52.
• '"Murdered at the Breast": Maternal Violence and the Self-Made Man in Popular Victorian Culture', Critical Survey, 16:1 (2004), pp.20-34.
• 'The Detective Fiction of Female Adolescent Violence', Clues: A Journal of Detection, 24 (2006), pp. 70-80.
• 'Apoplexy, Medical Ethics and the Female Undead', in Women's Writing (Spring 2009).