CV for Dr Corinna Wagner - Humanities - University of Exeter

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Corinna Wagner
Medicine, the Body and the Arts
History of Medicine and Medical Humanities
relationship between medicine, politics and visual culture
Michel Foucault, discipline, bio‐politics and panopticism (architectural and
medical)
Sexuality and gender
Romanticism, Revolution and Reaction
Specific figures: William Blake, William Godwin, Byron and the Shelleys
Graphic art and political culture, particularly James Gillray
The Gothic and uses of the Past
Gothic literature and art, and their relationship to science and medicine
Romantic and Victorian Medievalism; neo‐gothic architecture and art, especially
John Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, William Morris, Caspar David Friedrich, Henri
Fuseli, Goya, A W N Pugin and Gilbert Scott
Legacies of Enlightenment and Modernity
Materialism and Ideas of the Human
The rise of utilitarianism, esp. Godwin, Bentham and Mill
EDUCATION
2007 Doctor of Philosophy
Department of English and Related Literature, University of York
Thesis title: The Politics of Private Life: Propaganda, Morality and the Family,
1789‐1821.
2001 Master of Arts, Print Culture Degree Conferred 2002, Simon Fraser University
Thesis title: Bodies in Pain: Subjectification in Blake’s Jerusalem
2000 Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours), Simon Fraser University
GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS and AWARDS (since 2004)
2011 ‐ 2014 AHRC Early Career Grant, with Dr Joanne Parker
£146,172 for 'Identity, Community and Victorian Medievalism in the
South‐West'
2012 International Recruitment Award 2012‐13
2012 Research Assistant Scheme Award, with Andy Brown
2004 ‐ 2005 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship
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(SSHRC), Canada ($20,000 per annum)
2004 ‐ 2005 Canadian Centennial Scholarship (UK) (£2500 per annum)
2004 ‐ 2005 Mary LeMessurier Scholar in History for 2004/5, recipient of a Canadian
Centennial Scholarship (£2500 per annum)
2001 ‐ 2004 Overseas Research Students Award Scheme (ORSAS) (Universities UK)
(£5600 per annum for three years)
2001 ‐ 2004 University of York Full Studentship (UK) (£8000 stipend + £3100 per
annum for three years)
ACADEMIC POSTS
2011 ‐ Senior Lecturer, Department of English, University of Exeter
2007 ‐ 2011 Lecturer, Department of English, University of Exeter, UK
2006 ‐ 2007 Assistant Professor, English Department, St. Francis Xavier University
2005 ‐ 2006 Lecturer, English Department, St. Francis Xavier University
2003 ‐ 2005 Teaching Assistant, University of York, UK
EXTERNAL ROLES
Assessor for: Research Council (ESRC), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
(SSHRC), Canada, Wiley‐Blackwell, Broadview Press, Journal for Eighteenth Century
Studies, Nineteenth Century Studies, Pickering and Chatto Publishing.
INTERNAL ROLES
2012‐ sub‐theme leader, with Andy Brown, ‘Arts, Aesthetics and Creativity,’ for the
Medical Humanities theme of the Humanities and Social Sciences Strategy (HASS)
2011‐ English Strategy Committee
2012
2010‐ Internationalization Officer, Department of English, University of Exeter
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
Body of Work: An Anthology of Poetry and Medical Writing, co‐edited with Dr Andy
Brown (Continuum/Bloomsbury, 2014)
The Dream of Transparency: Medicine and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century (exp.
2014)
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The Oxford Handbook to Victorian Medievalism, co‐edited with Joanne Parker (Oxford,
2014).
Pathological Bodies: Medicine and Political Culture in the Age of Revolution (University
of California Press, The Berkeley Series in British Studies, June 2013).
Gothic Evolutions: Poetry, Short Fiction and Theory (Broadview Press, 2013).
Multi‐Volume Editions:
The Selected Political Writings of John Thelwall, 4 vols., co‐edited with Robert Lamb
(Pickering and Chatto, Dec 2008).
Book chapters and articles in refereed journals:
‘Transparency, Reproductive Bodies, and the Problem of Infanticide,’ in Reproduction in
the Eighteenth Century, ed. Ray Stephanson, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press,
2014).
‘Darkness Made Visible: Melancholy, Medicine and Visual Representation,’ in
Melancholy and Literature, (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2014).
‘The Dream of a Transparent Body: Identity, Science and the Gothic Novel,’ Gothic
Studies, (special issue edited by Angela Wright), Volume 14, Number 1, May 2012, 74‐
92.
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‘Domestic Invasions: John Thelwall and the Exploitation of Privacy,’ in Radical Romantic
and Acquitted Felon: Essays on John Thelwall (1764‐1834), ed. Steve Poole,
Enlightenment World Series, (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2009), 95‐109.
‘Press Scandal and the Struggle for Cultural Authority in the 1790s,’ Nineteenth‐Century
Studies (Winter 2008), 1‐42.
‘“Standing Proof of the Degeneracy of Modern Times”: Architecture, Society and the
Medievalist Designs of A. W. N. Pugin.’ Beyond Arthurian Romances and Gothic Thrillers:
The Reach of Victorian Medievalism, ed. Lorretta Holloway and Jennifer Palmgren,
(Basingstoke: Palgrave: 2005), 9‐37.
‘Hypocritical Monster!: Loyalist Propaganda and the Scandalous Life of Tom Paine’
British Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies, 28 (Spring 2005), 97‐115.
Shorter and/or Co‐authored Publications and Reviews:
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Review Symposium on The Force of the Example, Political Studies Review, vol. 8, no. 2
(May 2010) pp. 192–207, May 2010 (with Alessandro Ferrara, Dario Castiglione, Janice
Richardson, Andrew Schaap).
‘Symbolic Performances, Public Contests: Negotiating Politics’ British Association for
Romantic Studies Bulletin and Review, 23 (March 2003) pp.11‐14.
‘Review of Women, Gender and Enlightenment,’ ed. Sarah Knott and Barbara, History of
Political Thought, 28.2 (Summer 2007).
In preparation:
Victorian Medievalism in the South West (co‐authored book with Joanne Parker, exp.
2014)
‘William Godwin and Mary Shelley: Utilitarianism, Community and the Culture of
Chivalry’ (submission requested by the Keats‐Shelley Journal).
Media and Public Impact
2014 Public Exhibition Victorian Medievalism, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
co‐curated with Dr Joanne Parker, Dr Julien Parsons, Dr Thomas Cadbury
2012 Self‐portrait without Breasts: aesthetics and surgery, co‐organizer and panelist.
This is an exhibition, poetry reading and panel discussion, with poet Clare Best,
photographer Laura Stevens, Professor Janet Reibstein (Department of
Psychology, University of Exeter, author of Staying Alive: A Family Memoir) and
Dr James Mackay (UCL, the only accredited UK Consultant Medical Oncologist
specialising in clinical cancer genetics).
Find it here:
http://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/events/details/index.php?event=694
2012 BBC television series on Queen Victoria and Medievalism (December)
2012 Guest Blogger, International Gothic Association (November)
2012 Study Abroad and Internationalization Fair Tour, UMass (Amherst), Smith
College, Vassar, William & Mary and Brown University
2012 ‘Women in Love,’ Interview, Bridport Film Festival
2012 Public Dialogue on ‘Women In Love’ at the Bridport Film Festival
2012 participant in the Great Exhibitions & Great Debates evening with Andrew Marr
and the Encountering the Victorians, Exploring RAMM study day at the Royal
Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, March 23‐24
2011 ‘Keats in Teignmouth,’ Wordquest Devon Cultural Olympiad Project
2011 Public Dialogue on ‘Joyce’s “The Dead” and John Huston’ The Dead, Bridport Film
Festival
2010 Radio Interview, BBC Devon, ‘Keats in Teignmouth’
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2010 Feature by John Crace, Ten journalists try out their dream jobs for a day. See it
here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2010/jan/04/ten‐journalists‐work‐
experience
2008 Interview with Liz Ford, ‘So you want to study: a Master’s in English,’ Education,
the Guardian. See it here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/nov/08/masters‐degree‐english
CONFERENCES
Conference Organization (since 2008)
2012‐ Academic Programme Co‐ordinator for the annual conference of BSECS at
St. Hugh’s, Oxford. The BSECS conference attracts 400‐500 international
scholars. Visit the BSECS Website
2011 Co‐organizer (with Joanne Parker and Philip Schwyzer) Conference
Recasting the Past: Early Modern to Post Modern Medievalism
Selected Invited Conference Paper, Keynotes and Special Sessions (since 2009 only)
April 2013 Invited plenary: ‘Pornography, Medicine and Women’s Bodies,’ Erotica,
Pornography and the Obscene in Europe, University of Warwick
March 2013 Invited roundtable: Medical matters: the cultural politics of the body in
Eighteenth‐century Britain, CECS, University of York. This day conference
will bring together a group of six leading international scholars, who will
investigate representations of the human body as a site of cultural and
political debate during the long eighteenth century.
July 2012 Invited Plenary: 'The Future of the Past: Nostalgic Speculations and
Enlightenment Medicine’ Speculations, a BSECS early career and post‐
graduate conference, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain.
Jan 2011 Roundtable: Representations of the Crowd in Processions, with Frank
O'Gorman, Steve Poole and Katrina Navickas, BSECS, St. Hugh’s Oxford
Apr 2010 invited Plenary: ‘Politics, Taste and the Problem of Excessively Consuming
Bodies,’ invited plenary for Forgotten Bodies: Identities, Practices and
Representation Conference, Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of
Sexuality and Gender in Europe, University of Exeter
Jan 2010 Roundtable: Mind, Body and Narrative in the Long Eighteenth Century,
BSECS, St. Hugh’s, Oxford
Oct 2009 ‘Amazons, Hermaphrodites and Monstrous Mothers: Politics and the
Biologically‐Suspect Woman,’ invited paper, lecture series of the Centre
for the Interdisciplinary Study of Sexuality and Gender in Europe,
University of Exeter
Jan 2009 Roundtable: ‘Popular Constructions of the World,’ at the British
Society for Eighteenth‐Century Studies, St Hugh’s, Oxford
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PHD SUPERVISION
Internal Examiner, University of Exeter
Current PhD students: Elena Lipsos, Pin‐Up Femininity: A Genealogy of Female Sexuality
in the Pin‐Up Aesthetic
Marlies Bailey, Postmodern Fantasy and Splatterpunk: Exploring New Forms of
Postcolonial Representation in Literature, Films and Games
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Since 2005 Member of the International Gothic Association
Since 2005 Member of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism
Since 2001 Member of the British Association for Romantic Studies
Since 2001 Member of the British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
Since 2001 Member of the Institute for English Studies
Since 2001 Member of the Modern Language Association of America
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