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, 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 (forthcoming). Her first monograph, Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart, is currently in production at OUP. Dr Blair is also an Associate Editor of The Year’s Work in English Studies, and has contributed the chapter on ‘Victorian Poetry’ since 2002.
Dr Blair is interested in supervising postgraduate students working on any aspect of Victorian literature, or students with wider interests in poetry, literature and religion, women’s writing, or nineteenth and twentieth-century children’s literature.