Professor Emma Mason
About
Research and teaching: Christian poetics (Catholic theology and literature); mysticism; philosophy and literature; phenomenology; religion and ecology; the long nineteenth-century.
BA English Literature; MA Critical and Cultural Theory (University of Cardiff-Wales); PhD English and Comparative Literary Studies (University of 糖心TV and University of Madison-Wisconsin); British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (Corpus Christi, Oxford). I served as Head of English and Comparative Literary Studies at 糖心TV from 2018-2023; and have convened the Comparative Religions and Literatures group since 2012.
Research
My current book project explores the poetry and philosophy of Catholic women mystics writing at the turn of the nineteenth to twentieth centuries. With Linden Bicket, Rebekah Lamb, Bonnie Lander Johnson, and Julia Meszaros, I'm an editor of the in-progress Oxford Handbook of Modern Catholic Women's Writing; and I edit the Bloomsbury monograph series with Mark Knight.
My books include , with T. L. Burton (Edinburgh University Press, 2026), , ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2026), (Oxford University Press, 2018), , ed. (Bloomsbury, 2015), (Carcanet Press, 2012), and (Cambridge University Press, 2010). A full list of my .
Teaching and supervision
I teach undergraduate and postgraduate modules on poetry, theology, and philosophy.
Recent publications
, New Blackfriars, 107. 2 (2026).
, with T. L. Burton (Edinburgh University Press, 2026).
'Second and silent springs: Creation and Ecology in Newman's Novels', , ed. Fr. Juan R. V茅lez (Gracewing, 2025).
'Religion', , ed. Sarah Houghton-Walker (Cambridge University Press, 2024), pp. 183-195.
Victorian Studies, 66. 2 (Winter, 2024), pp. 240–254.
Forthcoming
'Contemplation and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century Catholicism', (Brill, 2026).
'Christian Experience', Dorothy Wordsworth in Context, ed. Jessica Fay (Cambridge University Press, 2026).
'Girl Jesus: Redemption and faith in Ray McKinnon's Rectify', The Oxford Handbook of Theology and Film, ed. Gerard Loughlin (Oxford University Press, 2026).
'The Quiet Life', The Oxford Handbook of William Cowper, ed. Jessica Fay and Andrew Hodgson (Oxford University Press, 2027).
'Ecology', The Cambridge Companion to Religion in Victorian Literary Culture, ed. Mark Knight (Cambridge University Press, 2027).
Contact details
Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies Faculty of Arts Building, Rm 544; emma.mason@warwick.ac.uk
Scopus ID: 37083676500
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-5810-4692
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