Kirstie Blair M.A., M.Phil, D.Phil
- Victorian poetry and poetics
- Nineteenth-century literature and religion
- Women’s writing
- Literature and medicine
Room 203, 5 University Gardens
telephone: 0141 330 4216
email : K.Blair@englit.arts.gla.ac.uk
Biography
Dr Kirstie Blair joined the Department in February 2005, having previously taught at Keble College and St Peter’s College, Oxford. Her primary research interests lie in Victorian literature, particularly poetry and poetic form, working-class poetry and poetics, literature and medicine, and literature and religion. She has also published specifically on Tennyson, George Eliot, Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf, among others. She has edited a collection of essays on John Keble (John Keble in Context (Anthem, 2004) and has contributed to The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology and the Blackwell Companion to Literature and the Bible. She also has forthcoming essays in The Blackwell Companion to Sensation Fiction, The Oxford Handbook of the Oxford Movement and The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry. Her first monograph, Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart appeared in 2006 from OUP, and her second monograph, Form and Faith in Victorian Poetry and Religion is currently under consideration by OUP. Dr Blair is also an Associate Editor of The Year’s Work in English Studies, and a Section Editor (Victorian literature) for Literature Compass.
Dr Blair is interested in supervising postgraduate students working on any aspect of Victorian literature, particularly in the fields of poetry and/or religion. She also has teaching and research interests in nineteenth and twentieth-century children’s literature and nineteenth-century American literature.