Sophie Cairns
Research title: Exploration, Imperial Discourse & Romantic Landscape Aesthetics: British Travel Accounts of the Indian-Himalaya, Hudson’s Bay Company Territory & West Africa, 1770-1860
Supervisors
Grants
- SGSAH AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership Scholarship, 2024-present
Conferences
- 'Curiosity, the Sublime, and Imperial Anxieties in British Travel Accounts of the Himalaya, 1815-1840' at Journeys of Curiosity: Early Career Symposium, Liverpool, 25 September 2025
Teaching
- Graduate Teaching Assistant on English Literature 1B, 'Critical Skill-Making: The Study of the Novel', 2025-26
Additional information
I was recipient of the 2023 Walter & Anne Wyatt Memorial Prize for my MLitt English Literature dissertation '‘The Sublime Himalaya’: Exploration, Romantic Landscape Aesthetics & Imperial Discourse in British Travel Accounts of the Himalaya, 1815-1840'.