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Gail Marshall

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Head of School of Literature and Languages.

Postgraduate supervision

Victorian literature and culture, specifically fiction, theatre, women’s writing and history, actresses, historiography, and Shakespeare’s Victorian after-life. I am currently completing a book on 1859, with particular attention to George Eliot’s life and work in that year, and am one of the General Editors for a new Cambridge University Press series on Re-Reading the Nineteenth Century.

Areas of interest

Victorian literature and culture, specifically fiction, theatre, women’s writing and history, actresses, historiography, and Shakespeare’s Victorian after-life. I am currently completing a book on 1859, with particular attention to George Eliot’s life and work in that year, and am one of the General Editors for a new Cambridge University Press series on Re-Reading the Nineteenth Century.

Postgraduate supervision

I am happy to supervise PhD students working in any area of Victorian literature and culture.