Dr Éadaoin Agnew
Faculties, departments and locations
- Kingston School of Art
- Department of Humanities
- School of Creative and Cultural Industries
- Penrhyn Road
Senior Lecturer
- Email:
- [email protected]
About
I am a senior lecturer and the Course Leader for English Literature. I specialise in the Victorian period, and I have a particular interest in the literature of the British Empire.
In both my teaching and my research, I assume a transnational and global approach to the 19th-century, although my research focuses largely on the Indian subcontinent.
My first monograph, 'Imperial Women Writers in Victorian India' was published in 2017. Since then I have produced a scholarly edition of two early 19-century travel texts and I have been working on transnational anti-colonial discourses in fin-de-siècle India. I am also developing a pedagogical project to decolonise the Victorians. I am happy to supervise PhDs in related topics.
Domains
I am currently teaching 19th-century Indian writing in English on the module, Race, Nation and Identity. I also teach Sex and the City: Victorian Metropolis to Modernist Wasteland; Deadly Desires and Dangerous Discourse: Gothic Literature and Theory; and Black and Asian Writing in English.
My research interests are:
- Victorian literature and culture
- global 19th-century literatures
- travel writing
- colonial and postcolonial studies
- ecocritical and new materialist theories
- Victorian India.
Publications
"Physically this universe is one": universal unity in Swami Vivekananda's 'Raja Yoga'
Agnew, Éadaoin, 2023, Victorian Popular Fictions Journal (5), 2pp 41-57, Published
When nature "punches back": a new materialist reading of Alice Perrin's 'East of Suez'
Agnew, Éadaoin, 2022, European Journal of English Studies (26), 1pp 66-84, Published
Education should be a right for all
Dixon, Paul, Favretto, Ilaria, Finn, Peter, Smart, Jackie, Spencer, Philip, Stockhammer, Engelbert, Stuart, John, Suess, Eleanor, Giaxoglou, Korina, Goldsmith, Carlie, Hallward, Peter, Hawkins, Sue, Swift, Allan, Upstone, Sara, Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, Wells, Julian, Wilson, Scott, Haywood, Peter, Higginbottom, Andrew, Ichijo, Atsuko, Isaac, Marina, Jensen, Meg, Kayyali, Reem, Kettyle, Ann, Lambrou, Marina, Latimer, Amanda, Linton, Marisa, Lipsedge, Karen, Malabou, Catherine, O Maoilearca, John, McQuillan, Martin, Micklethwaite, Paul, Morgan Wortham, Simon, O'Brien, Catherine, Blackburn, Robert, Botting, Fred, Brady, Mary, Osborne, Peter, Pinnock, Winsome, Piper, Jason, Choat, Simon, Chu, Jonathan, Cinpoes, Radu, Coultas, Valerie, Dines, Martin, Caygill, Howard, Chadwick, Howard, Chanter, Tina, Roberts, Mike, Rogers, David, Sandford, Stella, Searby, Michael, Siddiki, Jalal Uddin, Ponto, Maria, Raphael, Sam, Reid, Trish, Agnew, Eadaoin, Alliez, Eric and Auerbach, Paul, 2014, The Guardian, Published
'An Old Vagabond': science and sexuality in Marianne North's representations of India
Agnew, Eadaoin, 2011, Tierarztliche Praxis Ausgabe G: Grosstiere - Nutztiere (7), 2, Published
Imperial women writers in Victorian India: representing colonial life, 1850-1910
Agnew, Eadaoin (2017). Cham, Switzerland: (Palgrave Macmillan) [Published]
Science and technology in nineteenth-century Ireland
(2011). Dublin, Ireland: [Published]
A further shore: essays in Irish and Scottish studies
(2008). Aberdeen, U.K.: [Published]
Transnational encounters in anglophone Indian women's writing
Agnew, Eadaoin (2024). In: Capancioni, Claudia, Constantini, Mariaconcetta, Kuehn, Julia, (eds.)[Accepted/In press]
Refracting the Raj: Hariot Dufferin's photographs of India, 1884-88
Agnew, Éadaoin (2014). In: Saunders, Clare Broome, (eds.), Abingdon, U.K.: Routledgepp 77-90 [Published]
A city 'on the rise': travel and tourism in nineteenth-century Belfast
Agnew, Eadaoin (2012). In: Purdue, Olwen, (eds.), Dublin, Ireland:pp 135-156 [Published]
A microscopic look at Mary Ward: gender, science, and religion in nineteenth-century Ireland
Agnew, Eadaoin (2011). In: Adelman, Juliana, Agnew, Eadaoin, (eds.), Dublin, Ireland: [Published]
Travel writing
Agnew, Eadaoin (2011). In: Murphy, James H., (eds.), Oxford, U.K.: [Published]
Relocating domesticity: letters from India by Lady Hariot Dufferin
Agnew, Eadaoin (2008). In: Kuehn, Julia, Smethurst, Paul, (eds.), Oxford, U.K.: Routledgepp 95-107 [Published]