Centre for Victorian Studies (CVS), Exeter

Description

The University of Exeter’s Centre for Victorian Studies (CVS), based within the College of Humanities, promotes interdisciplinary research and teaching in all aspects of nineteenth-century literature, culture and media. It comprehends the Victorian period in geographically and historically extensive terms; its researchers move beyond an island’s literature and culture to its global interdependencies and beyond Victoria’s reign to its antecedents and legacies.

The CVS has an international reputation for its innovative, interdisciplinary and transnational research and teaching in wide-ranging aspects of nineteenth-century literature, media and culture, as well as its strong archival holdings, thriving postgraduate community and internationally recognised academic events.

Research fostered by the Centre has a wide historical and conceptual scope. Current projects include Women and Craft, Hardy and Science, Victorian Globalization, Optical Entertainments, nineteenth-century gothic in the South West, sexology and sexual knowledge, a joint biography of Benjamin and Mary Disraeli, Robert Louis Stevenson, decadent poetics, poetics and Historical Prosody, and early film. The Centre is comprised of a diverse range of scholars, and it respects diversity of opinion and recognise the 2010 UK Equality Act.

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No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Founding year

2000

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University of Exeter
Streatham Campus
Northcote House
Exeter
EX4 4QJ