Serkie Marchant

(they/them)

BA (Aberystwyth), MA (Chester)

Research

My research involves nineteenth-century works of Gothic and science fiction. My MA focused on nineteenth-century short stories where authors used science to resist or defy death. My PhD also concerns nineteenth-century short fiction, although I am currently looking at the relationship between science and mortality more generally. I am currently writing a chapter on Blood.

I am interested in scientific progress during the nineteenth century, the development of the Gothic genre, as well as how authors reflect on mortality in their fiction.

I am a part-time student.

Thesis

Science and the Mortal Body in Nineteenth-Century Short Fiction