Meet The Team
Danielle Howarth
I am a first year PhD candidate in Medieval Studies researching trees in Middle English romance. I completed my undergraduate degree at the University of Sydney and an MSc in Medieval Literatures and Cultures here at the University of Edinburgh. I am interested in the fields of ecocriticism and gender studies.
Alumna of the Universities of Edinburgh and Oxford, I’m now carrying out doctoral research into feminist rewritings of mythology. I’m also a published writer of poetry and prose. I’m a literary omnivore, confirmed Italophile, mediocre singer, flag-flying feminist, occasional storyteller, and aubergine enthusiast. No, that isn’t a euphemism.
Harriet MacMillan
My research interests concern the activity of reading as a cultural construct - particularly the relationship between literary portrayals of reading and wider social attitudes towards knowledge and mediation. My doctoral project focuses this upon the long eighteenth century and the work of William Godwin (1756-1836).
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Louise Adams
Niki Holzapfel
In my mother’s words, I was her only child who actually wanted to see how the story ended. After earning degrees in English and creative writing, the same can be said today. I am most interested in considering how people tell their own stories in the controversial world of creative nonfiction.
Robyn is a graduate of McGill University and the University of Edinburgh. Her research involves the Victorian print trade, women, authorship, and digital humanities. Otherwise, Robyn is an avid ghost story reader with heterochromia and a penchant for the outdoors.
Robyn
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Ryan Edwards
I am a first year PhD student interested in the literary evocation of the everyday and the representation of everyday individuals in Edwardian fiction, focusing mainly on Arnold Bennett, and its echoes in subsequent modernist texts. My research incorporates theories of the everyday, literary periodisation, and Edwardian periodicals, verse and drama.
I'm working on a PhD looking at representations of refugee and asylum seeker experience in the UK. I hold a BA (HONS) in English and Spanish, an MA in Comparative Literature (both from the University of Auckland) and am ever the student of literatures of displacement and resistance.
Sarah Stewart
Tess Goodman
Tess Goodman is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Edinburgh, an alumna of the University of Virginia, and a quondam employee of Rare Book School. She is curious about everything to do with book history, bibliography, libraries, and travel. Her current research focuses on how tourists in nineteenth-century Scotland used books—as both narratives and objects—to hold on to intangible memories.
Vicki is writing her PhD on the gothicisation of mental illness in post-World War II American literature with an emphasis on the uncanny. When she’s not nose deep in taboo subjects and psychoanalysis, she enjoys writing gothic stories of her own and watching a healthy mix of scary movies and romantic comedies.
Vicki Madden
