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Mary L. Shannon

Dr

 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4709-9952
20142019

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Personal profile

Qualifications

PhD (King's College London), MA (King's College London), PGCE (Institute of Education, University of London), BA (Hons) (University of Cambridge

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Research interests

  • periodicals, popular culture and book history

  • cultural geography and literary London

  • nineteenth-century literature including Charles Dickens and G.W.M. Reynolds

  • nineteenth-century print culture and visual culture

  • Victorian drama and theatre

  • nineteenth-century adventure fiction

 I am currently working on a monograph about Billy Waters and popular culture, 1800-1860.

I am also co-editing a volume of essays on GWM Reynolds, and planning a future project about 'Adventurous Ageing' in Victorian adventure fiction and travel writing.

Research projects

I was awarded the 2016 Colby Prize for my monograph, 'Dickens, Reynolds and Mayhew on Wellington Street: The Print Culture of a Victorian Street'. I gave the Colby Lecture at the 2016 Research Society for Victorian Periodicals international conference in Kansas City.

Romantic Illustration Network (original facilitator)

Popular Literature and Culture Research Group (co-founder)

I am also working on a children's novel in my spare time.

Professional affiliations

Founding President, international GWM Reynolds Society

Research Society for Victorian Periodicals: Executive Board Member 2017-19

British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS): Executive Committee member 2010-14

North American Victorian Studies Association

British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS)

 

Consultancy work

Research Consultant to nineteenth-century historical fiction writers:

  • Anthony Horowitz, Moriarty (Orion: 2014) and Foyle’s War, Eleventh Hour Films;

  • Sam Christer House of Smoke (Sphere: 2015);

  • Jess Kidd, Things in Jars (Canongate: 2019) 

 

 

Teaching

Victorian Literature

Children's Literature

Popular fiction

Print culture

Links

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox__4k6Lkjg

View Romantic Illustration Network website

View 'Remarkable Reynolds: Dickens's Radical Rival' website

View Twitter Account

 

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