Professor Patricia Pulham
About
Biography
Patricia Pulham is Professor of Victorian Literature and currently President of the British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS). At 糖心Vlog, Patricia is Head of the School of Arts, Humanities and Creative Industries. She completed her doctorate at Queen Mary, University of London in 2001, and taught at Brunel, Goldsmiths, Birkbeck and QMUL, where she was Lecturer in Poetry from 2002-03. In 2004, she was appointed to a lectureship in English literature at the University of Portsmouth. She joined the 糖心Vlog in 2017, having previously held a Readership and a series of research leadership roles at Portsmouth, including Director of the university's Centre for Studies in Literature. Patricia is an elected member of the Academia Europea; a member of the AHRC PRC and the UKRI FLF PRC; and sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Neo-Victorian Studies, Victoriographies, and 痴辞濒耻辫迟茅.
She has supervised several PhD students to completion and has examined numerous PhD theses in the UK and abroad. She welcomes enquiries from prospective PhD students wishing to study in any of the following areas: decadence, aestheticism, Victorian literature and visual cultures, late-Victorian Gothic, spiritualism, or neo-Victorian fiction.
Her latest book, The Sculptural body in Victorian literature: Encrypted Sexualities (2020) was published by Edinburgh University Press in their Critical Studies in Victorian Culture series and republished in paperback in 2022.
Areas of specialism
University roles and responsibilities
- Head of School
Affiliations and memberships
News
ResearchResearch interests
Nineteenth-century literature and culture, Decadence, Aestheticism, Victorian literature and visual cultures, late-Victorian Gothic, spiritualism, and neo-Victorianism.
Research interests
Nineteenth-century literature and culture, Decadence, Aestheticism, Victorian literature and visual cultures, late-Victorian Gothic, spiritualism, and neo-Victorianism.
Publications
Selected Publications
Authored Books:
- The Sculptural Body in Victorian Literature: Encrypted Sexualities (Edinburgh University Press, 2020; 2022).
- Dickens and the Victorian City, co-authored with Bran Beaven (Tricorn Books, 2012).
- Art and the Transitional Object in Vernon Lee鈥檚 Supernatural Tales, (Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2008).
Edited Volumes:
- Vernon Lee, Decadence and Interart Aestheticism (Journal Special Issue; co-authored), 痴辞濒耻辫迟茅: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Decadent Studies 5:2 (January 2023).
- Tracing the Victorians: Material Uses of the Past in Neo-Victorianism (Journal Special Issue; co-authored), Victoriographies 9.3 (2019).
- Spiritualism in Literature (vol. 2) in Patricia Pulham et al, Spiritualism, 1840鈥1930 (4 vols.), Victorian Concepts series (London; New York: Routledge, 2014).
- Haunting and Spectrality in Neo-Victorian Fiction: Possessing the Past, co-edited with Rosario Arias, (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
- Hauntings and Other Fantastic Tales, co-edited with Catherine Maxwell, (Ontario: Broadview Press, 2006).
- Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics, co-edited with Catherine Maxwell, (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).
Journal Articles:
- 鈥極rientalist Aestheticism: Vernon Lee, Carlo Gozzi, and the Venetian Fairy Comedy鈥 in Vernon Lee, Decadence and Interart Aestheticism (Journal Special Issue; co-authored by Patricia Pulham and Sally Blackburn-Daniels), 痴辞濒耻辫迟茅: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Decadent Studies 5:2 (January 2023): 63-81.
- 鈥楩antasmas vistos y no vistos: espiritualismo y ocultismo en la ficci贸n de Violet Tweedale鈥, in G茅nero, heterodoxia y traducci贸n: difusi贸n del ocultismo en Espa帽a y el 谩mbito europeo (1850-1920), ed. Rosario Arias et al (Reichenberger, 2023), pp. 9-26.
- 鈥楾races of Wilde: Fact and Fiction in Dorian: An Imitation and The Picture of John Gray鈥, Victoriographies 9.3 (2019): 218-315.
- 鈥極ccultism and the homme fatal in Robert Smythe Hichens鈥檚 Flames: A London Phantasy鈥, 痴辞濒耻辫迟茅: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Decadent Studies 1:2 (Winter 2018): 97-115.
- 鈥楢. C. Swinburne鈥檚 鈥渂irchen pen鈥: Epistolary Sadomasochism in Love鈥檚 Cross-Currents: A Year鈥檚 Letters, Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal 50: 3 (Sept. 2017): 141-157.
- 鈥楳armoreal Sisterhoods: Women writing Sculpture in the Nineteenth Century鈥, 19:Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century (2016), 22, DOI: .
Book Chapters
- 鈥楢 鈥減alimpsest of dimly familiar signatures and arabesques鈥: Art, Time, and the Artist in Neo-Decadent Fiction鈥 in Kostas Boyiopoulos and Jo Thorne, eds. Neo-Victorian Decadence (Leiden: Brill), forthcoming, 2024, 22 pp.
- 鈥楥hannelling the Past: Arthur & George and the Neo-Victorian Uncanny鈥 in Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle: Multimedia Afterlives, eds. Catherine Wynne and Sabine Vanacker (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 155-168.
- 鈥楴eo-Victorian Gothic and Spectral Sexuality in Colm To铆b铆n鈥檚 The Master鈥 in Neo-Victorian Gothic: Horror, Violence and Degeneration in the Re-Imagined Nineteenth Century, eds. Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben (Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, 2012), pp. 147-166.
- 鈥楴ew Pygmalions: Idealism and Disillusionment in William Hazlitt鈥檚 Liber Amoris and Vernon Lee鈥檚 Miss Brown鈥 in The Legacies of Romanticism: Literature, Aesthetics, Landscape (Routledge Studies in Romanticism), eds. Carmen Casaliggi and Paul March Russell (New York: Routledge, 2012), pp. 101-116,