Anna Rivers

Email: anna.rivers@warwick.ac.uk

Office Hour 2023/2024: Friday 2-3pm, FAB5.31

Doctoral Thesis: Reality, Relationality, Spectrality: The Mystic Poetry of Emily Bront毛, Christina Rossetti and Mathilde Blind

Research Interests

Victorian poetry, women's writing, Philosophy and Literature, Science and Literature, mycology and germ theory, mysticism, the literary supernatural, poetry and poetics, posthumanism

Teaching

2023/2024: Romantic and Victorian Poetry (Module Convenor, Lecturer, Seminar Tutor)

2020/2021: Modern World Literature (Seminar Tutor)

Publications

"鈥楲ife whetted upon life鈥�: Mathilde Blind, The Ascent of Man and the Geological Record" (peer-reviewed article) in Victorian Poetry. Accepted for Winter 2024 issue

鈥淐irce鈥檚 Garden: Rewriting Epic and Revolutionary Time鈥� (peer-reviewed article) in Comparative Critical Studies 19.1, March 2022, pp. 7-26

鈥淣eo-Victorianism and space/time hybridity in Angela Carter鈥檚 Nights at the Circus鈥� (book chapter) in Neo-Victorian Provocations: Nostalgia, Empire, Transmediality (Routledge, 2024)

鈥溾€淣o glimpse of a further shore鈥�: Emily Bront毛鈥檚 Spectral Poetics鈥� (book chapter) in The Uncanny and the Afterlife of the Gothic (LCIR), October 2021, pp. 27-46

Dr Anna Rivers is an IAS Fellow based in the English and Comparative Literary Studies department at 糖心TV University. Her current research explores intersections of scientific and mystical thought in nineteenth-century poetry, with a focus on electricity, mycology and posthumanism. She holds a MSt in English from Kellogg College, University of Oxford, where her dissertation focused on twentieth-century women's writing, monster theory and magic realism. Her PhD research at 糖心TV was supported by a CADRE scholarship.