I am a History PhD student researching Late-Victorian Celebrity Culture. I am utilising biographies, autobiographies, journalistic interviews and acts of fandom (e.g. autograph collecting) to assess the power-dynamics and matrices of fame at the end of the nineteenth century.
My research is funded through a studentship from the Economic and Social Research Council
LATE-VICTORIAN CELEBRITY CULTURE: THE INTERACTION OF CELEBRITY, MEDIA AND CONSUMERS
Open to converse with anyone studying the topic of Celebrity
Teaching:
Associate Lecturer on Hist100
Conferences presented at:
March 2017 History of Celebrity Conference at Queen Mary University, London
August 2017 British Association of Victorian Studies Conference at Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln
October 2017 Care and Machines Conference at Manchester University
Papers Presented:
'Revealing the Authentic Self: Victorian Celebrity Interviews'
'Publicly Private Connections: The Mediated Celebrity and Para-Social Relationship'
