Awardee Announced: Nineteenth-Century Matters Fellow 2026-27

Nineteenth-Century Matters is an initiative jointly run by the British Association for Romantic Studies and the British Association for Victorian Studies. Now in its tenth year, it is aimed at postdoctoral researchers who have completed their PhD, but who are not currently employed in a full-time academic post. Nineteenth-Century Matters offers unaffiliated early career researchers a platform from which to pursue their research, while also organising an academic event on a theme related to nineteenth-century studies or a workshop focused on an aspect of professionalisation.

We are very pleased to announce that the Nineteenth-Century Matters Fellowship for 2026-27 has been awarded to Dr Charlotte Wilson! Charlotte will be based at Liverpool John Moores University and mentored by Dr Clare Horrocks, Senior Lecturer in Cultural History, and Dr James Whitehead, Programme Leader for English Literature.

Charlotte Wilson has recently completed her PhD in English Literature at the University of Oxford examining the representation of domestic caregivers in nineteenth-century medical literature and fictional novels. Her research considers how ideas about home caregiving were shaped in the medical and cultural imagination, drawing attention to the caregiver as an important agent in medical treatment and exploring how print culture wrestles with the pleasures and challenges of caregiving relationships. Charlotte’s broader research interests include the histories of domesticity and the family, disability studies, and the medical humanities.