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Ann Heilmann

Professor Ann Heilmann

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School of English, Communication and Philosophy

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Overview

I am Professor of English Literature in Cardiff's School of English, Communication and Philosophy, and am ENCAP’s Director of Research (currently on leave; back from Feb. 2023). I joined Cardiff in 2012 after holding professorial chairs at the Universities of Hull and Swansea.

My research cuts across Victorian to contemporary literature and culture, women’s writing, and gender and sexuality studies. Publications include four monographs and some sixty articles, alongside nine other (mostly co-edited) books and seven guest-edited journal issues on Victorian to contemporary women’s writing, first-wave feminism and the New Woman, neo-Victorianism, literary gender studies and representations of transgender in Victorian to contemporary life-writing.

PhD supervision and ECR mentoring: I have mentored two funded postdoctoral projects on fin-de-siècle and early twentieth-century women’s writing and have supervised 15 PhD students to completion, in doctoral topics that have ranged across the fields of Victorian to contemporary literature and culture: Victorian sensation fiction, the late-Victorian New Woman, Victorian to contemporary women’s writing, literary gender and sexuality studies, neo-Victorian and neo-historical studies.

An elected Fellow of the English Association (EA), the International Association of University Professors of English (IAUPE), and the Learned Society of Wales (LSW), I was one of the Deputy Chairs of the English Language and Literature sub-panel for REF2021 (Research Excellence Framework; appointed from the criteria-setting phase, 2018-22). Previously I served on the REF2014 English sub-panel and prior to that acted as a Specialist Advisor to the RAE2008 English sub-panel.

In addition, I have Research Council experience (AHRC Peer Review College, 2004-2013) and served on the LSW Scrutiny Committee for Languages, Literature and the History and Theory of the Creative and Performing Arts from 2016-19. Until 2020 I was also an executive committee member of BAVS (British Association for Victorian Studies), where I was Membership Secretary (2005- 2008) and was involved in setting up the BAVS Book Prize in 2020. Previous executive committee positions include chairing the Women's History Network's Book Prize committee (2009-11), the Feminist and Women's Studies Small Grants Committee (2009-10), and serving as the Vice-President and President of the NCUP (National Council of University Professors (2006-10).

Advisory board membership of journals has included ELT/English Literature in Transition (2009-20), Memory Studies (2006-), Neo-Victorian Studies (2008-), Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts (2008-) and Women’s History Review (2001-). I was also on the board of the Olive Schreiner Letters Project (dir. Liz Stanley, Edinburgh, ESRC-funded project, 2008-12), http://www.oliveschreinerletters.ed.ac.uk/

I have (co-)organised nine conferences, most recently the annual BAVS 2016 conference on 'Consuming (the) Victorians' at (Cardiff. I am also the general editor of two Routledge book series (Gender and Genre [previously Pickering and Chatto] and History of Feminism).    

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  • Heilmann, A. 1998. Introduction. In: Heilmann, A. ed. The Late-Victorian Marriage Question: A Collection of Key New Woman Texts.., Vol. 5. London: Routledge, pp. xi-xix.
  • Heilmann, A. 1998. Introduction. In: Heilmann, A. ed. The Late-Victorian Marriage Question: A Collection of Key New Woman Texts.., Vol. 4. London: Routledge, pp. ix-xxi.
  • Heilmann, A. 1998. Introduction. In: Heilmann, A. ed. The Late-Victorian Marriage Question: A Collection of Key New Woman Texts.., Vol. 3. London: Routledge, pp. ix-xx.
  • Heilmann, A. 1998. Introduction. In: Heilmann, A. ed. The Late-Victorian Marriage Question: A Collection of Key New Woman Texts.., Vol. 2. London: Routledge, pp. xi-xviii.
  • Heilmann, A. 1998. General introduction. In: Heilmann, A. ed. The Late-Victorian Marriage Question: A Collection of Key New Woman Texts.. London: Routledge, pp. ix-xxx.
  • Heilmann, A. ed. 1998. The late-Victorian marriage question: a collection of key new woman texts. History of Feminism. London: Routledge.

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Research

Research fields

My fields of expertise are Victorian, especially fin-de-siècle literature, in particular the New Woman and the Anglo-Irish writer George Moore, and contemporary neo-Victorianism. More generally I have research interests in Victorian to 21st-century women's writing, gender and sexuality. I have written monographs on turn-of-the-century feminist literature (New Woman Fiction: Women Writing First-Wave Feminism, 2000, and New Woman Strategies: Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner, Mona Caird, 2004). My other two monographs are on neo-Victorian literature, culture, gender and life-writing: a co-authored study of Neo-Victorianism: The Victorians in the Twenty-First Century (with Mark Llewellyn, 2010), and most recently a monograph on Neo-/Victorian Biographilia and James Miranda Barry: A Study in Transgender and Transgenre (2018). I am now working on a book on Neo-Victorianism and In/Authenticity.

My edited work includes a critical edition of The Collected Short Stories of George Moore (with Mark Llewellyn, 2007) and (co-edited) essay collections on George Moore: Influence and Collaboration (also with Llewellyn, 2014), the New Woman (Feminist Forerunners, 2003; and New Woman Hybridities, 2004, the latter with Margaret Beetham) and Metafiction and Metahistory in Contemporary Women's Writing (2007, with Llewellyn). I have also (co-)edited four multi-volume anthology sets (The Late-Victorian Marriage Question, 1998; Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand, with Stephanie Forward, 2000; Anti-Feminism in the Victorian Novel, 2004; and Anti-Feminism in Edwardian Literature, with Lucy Delap, 2006).  

For a detailed list that includes journal articles and chapters in books see the Publications page.    

General editor, book series and digital resources:

  • History of Feminism anthology series, Routledge (21 titles since 2000); https://www.routledge.com/History-of-Feminism/book-series/SE0007
  • Routledge Historical Resources: The History of Feminism database, Routledge (2016) [This resource incorporates the History of Feminism anthology series into a comprehensive digital archive of critical and source texts], https://www.routledgehistoricalresources.com/feminism/about/history-of-feminism
  • Gender and Genre monograph and essay collection series, Routledge (formerly Pickering and Chatto) (16 titles since 2009)

Conference organisation

I have (co)organised five international conferences, at

  • Cardiff: 'Consuming (the) Victorian', BAVS annual conference 2016
  • Hull: 'Neo-Victorian Art and Aestheticism' (2011, sponsored by BAVS); 'George Moore and his Contemporaries' (2008, sponsored by the British Academy and the Department of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Ireland)
  • Swansea: 'Hystorical Fictions: Women, History, Authorship’ (2003)
  • Manchester: 'Feminist Forerunners: The New Woman in the International Periodical Press’ (2000)

    In addition I have convened symposia and smaller conferences, at the University of Wales Conference Centre in Gregynog (˜Gendering the Subject’, 2004) and for the NCUP in 2006, 2008 and 2009 (˜'RAE2008: The Mentoring and Support of Early Career Researchers', 'Counting on Excellence: Bibliometrics and the Future of Research Funding and ˜Languages and Internationalisation: Globalisation and the 21st-century University'). 

    I maintain an international Call for Papers mailing list on 'Women and Gender'. To be added to the list, email me.

    Research grants

    I have held research grants from the AHRC (under the Collaborative Doctoral Training scheme, and twice the former Research Leave scheme), the ESRC in conjunction with the AHRC and British Academy (AHRC/BA/ESRC Visiting Fellowship scheme), and the British Academy (twice under the AHRC/BA/ESRC Visiting Fellowship scheme; Visiting Professorship scheme; Conference Grant scheme; Overseas Conference scheme) and BAVS (British Association for Victorian Studies, conference grant). Most recently I have been a member of two MINECO (Spanish government) funded research projects (PI Rosario Arias, University of Malaga): 'Orientation: Towards a Dynamic Understanding of Contemporary Fiction and Culture (1990s-2000s)’ (ongoing) and ‘New Critical Approaches to the Trace and its Application to Recent Literature Written in English’.

    For invitations, keynotes and public lectures, and public engagement see the Biography page.

      Teaching

      Since 2012 I have contributed to first-year modules on ‘Critical Reading and Critical Writing’ and 'The Novel' and convened and taught three specialist modules: 'Victorian Fiction' (Year 2), 'Gender and Monstrosity: Late-Victorian to Neo-Victorian' (Year 3) and an MA module on 'Neo-Victorian Metatextualities'.

      In the session 2016-17 I was nominated for two teaching awards ('Most effective teacher' and 'Most innovative member of staff'), and in 2017-18 I was shortlisted (as one of three members of Cardiff University staff) for the ‘Most innovative member of staff’ category for the 2018 Enriching Student Life Awards process.

      Biography

      Overview

      I was appointed in Cardiff in 2012, having previously held professorships at the Universities of Hull and Swansea and lectureships at Manchester Metropolitan and Bradford Universities. Born and educated in Germany, I came to the UK originally on a fixed-term instructorship at the University of Leeds, where I taught German while undertaking my doctoral studies in English Literature for the University of Tübingen. 

      During this time I also worked in Adult and Further Education and for the WEA (Workers' Educational Association). Prior to that, while reading for my degree in English and French Language and Literature at Tübingen, I spent six months studying at what was then University College Cardiff: an inspiring experience which determined my later decision to return to the UK. 

      Appointments                                                          

      • 2012-:        Professor of English Literature, Cardiff University
      • 2005-12:    Professor of English, Dept. of English, University of Hull
      • 1999-2005 Lecturer (B), Senior Lecturer (2001-4), Professor (2004-5), Dept. of English, Swansea University
      • 1996-99:    Lecturer (full time, permanent) in English, Manchester Metropolitan University (Crewe & Alsager Campus)
      • 1994-96:    Lecturer (fixed term) in Women’s Studies, University of Bradford
      • 1991-94:    Tutor (part time), WEA, Yorkshire North branch, Leeds
      • 1991-94:    Tutor (part time) in Adult and Further Education (three AE/FE colleges, Leeds); language instructor for Leeds Metropolitan University
      • 1987-92:    Language instructor (‘Lektorin’) and (from 1990) sessional tutor in the German Dept., School of Modern Languages, Leeds University           
      • 1985-86:    Research Assistant, School of English, University of Tübingen, Germany (working for Professor Dr. Hans-Werner Ludwig; additional 2 month contract in the summer of 1987)

      Education                                                                            

      March 1998: Dr. Phil. (Eng. Lit.), University of Tübingen, Germany (‘Magna cum laude’, 11 March 1998); Thesis title: 'New Women and Novels with a Purpose: Fin-de-siècle Feminism and the British Woman Writer'; supervised by Prof. Dr. Hans-Werner Ludwig, then Vice-Chancellor of Tübingen 

      May 1986: ‘Staatsexamen’ (MA-equivalent qualification inclusive of BA studies) in English and French Language and Literature, University of Tübingen (MA dissertation on Thomas Hardy and Naturalism), Grade 1.5 (lower first) 

      Oct. 1981 to March 1982: Sorbonne, Paris (scholarship funded by the DAAD / German Academic Exchange Service)

      Oct. 1980 to March 1981: University College Cardiff (scholarship funded by the DAAD)

      October 1978 to May 1986: English and French Language and Literature, University of Tübingen 

        Honours and awards

        Fellowships 

        • Fellow, Learned Society of Wales (elected 2014), from Oct. 2016 member of Scrutiny Committee B1 (Languages, Literature and the History and Theory of the Creative and Performing Arts)
        • Fellow, English Association (elected 2008)
        • Fellow, IAUPE (International Association of University Professors of English, elected 2008)

        Research grants

        • 2011: £372, BAVS Funding Grant, for postgraduate bursaries for ‘Neo-Victorian Art and Aestheticism’ conference, University of Hull 2011
        • 2010: £200, BA Overseas Conference Grant for ‘Fashioning the Neo-Victorian’ conference, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, 8-10 April 
        • 2009: £7,450, BA Visiting Fellowship (BA/AHRC/ESRC Middle East and South Asia scheme), PI, for third visit by Dr Galia Ofek, Hebrew University, Israel: ‘The New Woman’s Testament: Biblical Narratives, Allusions and Imagery in “New Woman” Fiction’, Feb.-Jul. 2010)  
        • 2008: £11,812, ESRC Visiting Fellowship (BA/AHRC/ESRC Middle East and South Asia scheme); PI, for follow-on research visit by Dr Ofek (‘The New Woman’s Testament’, Jul.-Nov. 2008)
        • 2008: EUR 414.18, Department of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Ireland, for ‘George Moore and His Contemporaries’ conference (5-6 Sept. 2008)
        • 2008: £1,703, BA British Conference Grants scheme, PI, ‘George Moore and His Contemporaries’ conference, University of Hull 2008
        • 2007: £7,437, BA Visiting Fellowship (BA/AHRC/ESRC Middle East and South Asia scheme), PI, for first visit by Dr Ofek (‘The New Woman’s Testament’, Aug.-Oct. 2007)
        • 2006: £14,013, AHRC (Research Leave Scheme; project: Vols 1, 2 and 4 of 5-vol. scholarly edition, The Collected Short Stories of George Moore, Pickering and Chatto, 2007) 
        • 2004: £3,000, BA Visiting Professorship, PI, for research visit by Dr Sue Thomas, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia (‘Gender, Anglo-Imperialism and the West Indies’)
        • 2004: £1,059, AHRB Collaborative Research Training Scheme (PI, lead research student Mark Llewellyn); PGR conference on ‘Masculinity as Masquerade’ (Gregynog, 25-26 Apr. 2005)   
        • 2001-2: £13,750, AHRB Research Leave Scheme (New Woman Strategies: Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner, Mona Caird, MUP, 2004)

        Postgraduate and undergraduate awards

        • 1990-92:  Full German doctoral scholarship ('Graduiertenförderung'™), with a top-up grant by the DAAD for doctoral studies undertaken in the UK (Leeds) 
        • 1981-1982: Sorbonne, Paris: scholarship funded by the DAAD / German Academic Exchange Service
        • 1980-1981: University College Cardiff: scholarship funded by the DAAD

        Professional memberships

        Executive committee membership

        • BAVS (British Association for Victorian Studies): Membership Secretary 2005-8, Executive Committee 2001-8, 2015-20 
        • FSA (then FWSA, Feminist and Women’s Studies Association): Coordinator of Small Grants scheme (2009-10)
        • LSW (Learned Society of Wales) Scutiny Committee B1 (Languages, Literature and the History and Theory of the Creative and Performing Arts), 2017- 
        • NCUP (National Council of University Professors): Immediate Past President, 2010-12, President 2008-10, Vice-President 2006-8, executive committee member 2005-15
        • WHN (Women’s History Network): Chair of judges, WHN Book Prize (2009-11), invited panel member (2008-9), member of WHN Steering Committee (2009-11) 

        Ordinary membership of: CWWA (Contemporary Women Writers Association), MLA, NAVSA (North American Victorian Studies Association), Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society, Fawcett Society

          Academic positions

          Previous academic posts

          • 2005-2012:   Professor of English, Department of English, University of Hull
          • 1999 - 2005: Lecturer (B), Senior Lecturer (2001-4), Professor (2004-5), Department of English, Swansea University 
          • 1996 - 1999: Lecturer in English, Manchester Metropolitan University
          • 1994 - 1996: Lecturer (fixed term) in Women's Studies, University of Bradford
          • 1991 - 1994: Tutor (part time), WEA, Leeds
          • 1991 - 1994: Tutor (part time) in Adult and Further Education (3 AE/FE colleges, Leeds); language instructor for Leeds Metropolitan University
          • 1987 - 1992: Language instructor ('Lektorin') and (from 1990) sessional tutor, German Department, School of Modern Languages, University of Leeds 
          • 1985 - 1986: Research Assistant, School of English, University of Töbingen, Germany (employed by Professor Dr. Hans-Werner Ludwig; additional 2 month contract in the summer of 1987)

          Administrative and management roles

          Cardiff University: 

          • School service: REF2021 UoA lead for English Language and Literature; Director of Research (responsible for English, Communication and Philosophy), Aug. 2016-; previously subject DoR for English Literature and Critical and Cultural Theory (2012-2013; 2014-2015; 2016; Senior Management Team (2016-); Research Strategy committee, ENCAP (2012-; chair from 2016); ENCAP promotions panel (2012-13, 2014-15); ENCAP research leave panel (2012-13, 2016-); ENCAP School Board (2012-13, 2016-17) and SMT (2017-21); ENCAP appointments panels (2012-13) 
          • College of Arts and Social Sciences service: DoR committee; Humanities Connect (College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences) committee (2012-Dec.2013, Oct. 2014-July 2015)
          • University service: Rolling REF (2016-17, 2017-18): ‘Critical Friend’ to MLANG, WELSH, SHARE, JOMEC   

          University of Hull: 

          • Departmental service: Director of Research (2007-12); REF co-ordinator (2008-11); Director of Graduate Studies (PGT and PGR, sem. 2, 2010-11; PGT, sem.2, 2011-12); events and public lectures convenorship: Annual English Lecture (Elaine Showalter, 2007; Patricia Duncker, 2008; Ahdaf Soueif [with Catherine Wynne], 2009); Annual Victorian Lecture (Elaine Showalter, 2010; Margaret Stetz, 2011); convenor of departmental research seminar series (Spring 2008; Spring/Autumn 2009; coordinator of four research strands 2009-11); MA convenor, Women, Gender and Literature (2006-11)
          • Faculty/University-wide service: Contributions to Staff Development Training (Preparing Evidence for Professional Advancement: External and professional contribution, 2007; Supervision of Research Students in the Arts and Humanities, 2008, 2009, 2010; AHRC Fellowship Application: From the perspective of the peer reviewer, 2009; AHRC Research Grant Evaluation and Peer Review, 2011); University REF Working Party (2010- spring 12) and ‘critical REF friend’ (Business Studies, History and Politics); Faculty REF working party (2010-11); Founding Director, Centre for Victorian Studies (2009-11); Faculty Research Executive (2007-12); Faculty of Health and Social Care Review Group (2006-8); Senate (2007-10); Faculty Board (2006-8); RAE appeals panel (2007)
          • Leadership training: Leadership Programme (Hull 2007-8), Head of Department training (Hull, 2007); Senior Strategic Leadership Programme, 2007 (Leadership Foundation for Higher Education). 

          Swansea University:

          • Departmental service: Implemented and convened research seminar strand (‘Women and Gender’, 2003-5) with international mailing list (ongoing); Founding Director, Centre for Research into Gender in Culture and Society (2003-5); implementation and convenorship of MA in Gender and Culture (2003-5); implementation of BA in English with Gender (2004, with Sarah Gamble)
          • Faculty and University service: Committee memberships (2001-5): Council; Senate; Human Resources; Research Committee; Academic Staffing (SL promotions); Academic Development and Training; Equal Opportunities.implemented and convened research seminar strand (‘Women and Gender’, 2003-5); Member and chair of appointments committees since 2004

          Bradford University: Admissions Tutor, BA Women’s Studies and Social Policy (1994-96)

          Senior Staff Development training 

          • Aurora Women’s Leadership Programme: Role Model (2016-17, 2017-18)
          • Leadership Programme (Hull 2007-8), Head of Department training (Hull, 2007)
          • Senior Strategic Leadership Programme, 2007 (Leadership Foundation for Higher Education)
          • Contributions to Staff Development Training (Hull: Preparing Evidence for Professional Advancement: External and professional contribution, 2007; Supervision of Research Students in the Arts and Humanities, 2008, 2009, 2010; AHRC Fellowship Application: From the perspective of the peer reviewer, 2009; AHRC Research Grant Evaluation and Peer Review, 2011)

            Committees and reviewing

            Research and Funding Councils:

            • 2018-22: Deputy Chair, REF 2021 sub-panel 27 (English Language and Literature), appointed from criteria-setting phase
            • 2011-2014: Member, sub-panel 29 (English Language and Literature)
            • 2008: Specialist Advisor to sub-panel 57 (English Language and Literature), RAE 2008
            • 2015-20: Member, ARC (Australian Research Council) College of Assessors
            • 2004-14: Member, AHRC Peer Review College; Strategic Reviewer from 2013; panel member (Fellowship scheme, Oct. 2014; Fellowship scheme Jan. 2011)
            • 2009: Invited assessor, OTKA (Hungarian RC, Research Grants scheme)
            • 2008: Invited assessor, ESRC (Research Grants scheme)
            • 2005: Invited assessor, SSHRCC (Canada; Research Grants scheme)
            • 2004: Invited assessor, IRCHSS (Irish RC; Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme)

            Research consultancy/REF advisor

            • (English) School of Music, Humanities and Media, University of Huddersfield (REF training and outputs assessment, 2015-)
            • English Department, University of Durham (Research review, Sept.-Oct.2015)
            • English, University of Exeter (Research event, 7 Jan. 2016)
            • Humanities, Bishop Grosseteste, Lincoln (REF workshop, 18 February 2016)
            • English, National University of Ireland, Republic of Ireland (outputs assessment, spring 2016)
            • English, University of Bristol (REF workshop, 10 May 2016; REF outputs assessment, Feb. 2017)
            • English, University of Greenwich (REF workshop, 16 June 2016; REF outputs assessment, Feb. 2017)
            • English, University of Strathclyde (REF outputs assessment, spring 2017)
            • English, Edinburgh University (REF outputs assessment, 2017-18)
            • English, University of Surrey (REF workshop, 7 June 2017)
            • English and Humanities, Brunel University (REF workshop, 13 Dec. 2017)
            • As Deputy Chair of REF2021 SP27: REF2021 overview, University English AGM, University of York, 13 April 2019

            • Alongside other REF2021 panellists: Contribution to REF panel session, English Shared Futures 2022, Manchester, 8 July 2022

            • REF advisory role for: Nottingham Trent (Oct. 2022-), Edinburgh University (Feb. 2023-)
            • Contribution to REF workshops: Surrey (2023)
            • REF workshops: Leeds Trinity (2022), Strathclyde (2022), Hull (2023)

            Editorial and advisory boards

            • ELT/English Literature in Transition (2009-20)
            • Memory Studies (2006-)
            • Neo-Victorian Studies (2008-)
            • Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts (2008-)
            • Women’s History Review (2001-)  
            • Advisory board, Olive Schreiner Letters Project (dir. Liz Stanley, Edinburgh, ESRC-funded project, 2008-12), http://www.oliveschreinerletters.ed.ac.uk/

            Peer reviewing 

            • Academic journals: C21 Literature; English; Gothic Studies; History of the Family; Journal of American Studies; Journal of Gender Studies, Journal of Victorian Culture; Journal of Women’s History; Literature & History; Modernism/Modernity; Nineteenth-Century Literature; Studies in the Novel; Texas Studies in Language and Literature; Victorian Periodicals Review; Victorian Review; Victorian Studies; Women’s Writing)
            • Publishers: Ashgate; Broadview Press; Ohio State University Press; Palgrave; Pearson Education
            • Entries for encyclopedias: Blackwell Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature

            Invited pre-publication reviews for book covers:

            • Iveta Jusová, The New Woman and the Empire (Ohio State University Press, 2005)
            • Kirsti Bohata, ed. Stranger Within the Gates: A Collection of Short Stories by Bertha Thomas (Honno, 2008)
            • Constance D. Harsh, ed. Edith Johnstone, A Sunless Heart (Broadview Press, 2008)
            • Rachel Carroll, Transgender and the Literary Imagination (Edinburgh UP, 2018); Jessica Cox, Neo-Victorianism and Sensation Fiction (Palgrave, 2019) 

            External assessor, promotions and appointments

            • UK:Kingston University; University of Wales Aberystwyth; University of Wales Bangor; University of Liverpool; University of Salford; University of Glasgow; Lincoln University; Portsmouth University; University of Leicester; University of Glamorgan; University of Aberdeen
            • International: Indiana University Southeast, USA;  Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada; Kent State University, USA;  ANU, Australia  
            • Professorial promotions panel (Soutenance), Sorbonne, Paris (Dec. 2017)  

            External validation of MA programmes

            • MA English Literature, University of Westminster (2005)
            • MA Women’s Studies, University of Wales Bangor (2005)
            • MA English, Bishop Grosseteste, Lincoln (internal pre-validation event, 2015)

            External examiner, under/postgraduate

            • BA Gender Studies and Social Policy pathway, University of Bradford (2001-4)
            • MLitt in Victorian Literature, University of Glasgow (2006-10)
            • MA/MSc in Gender, Sexuality and Culture, Birkbeck, University of London (2010-11)

            External examiner, PhD theses

            • 2005: University of Haifa, Israel (‘Transforming Paradigms: The Witch Stereotype in Modern Female Writing’)
            • 2005: La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia (‘Legends of the Fall: Sensational Press Events of Fin-de-Siècle Melbourne’)
            • 2005: Birkbeck College, University of London (‘New Woman and Suffrage Drama by Women, 1880-1928’)
            • 2008: Manchester Metropolitan University (‘The Yellow Book and Fin-de-Siècle Magazines: Gender, Journalism and Urbanity’)
            • 2008: University of Queensland, Australia (MPhil, ‘Feasts, Fiends and Feminists: The Performance of Aberrant Female Appetite in Neo-Victorian Fiction’)
            • 2008: University of Exeter (‘Empire of the Imagination: Victorian Popular Fiction and the Occult’)
            • 2010: Leeds Metropolitan University (‘“But puppets themselves have passions”: The Ventriloquial Influence of Oscar Wilde on Angela Carter, Will Self, and Sarah Waters’)
            • 2010: Lancaster University (‘Epistolary Encounters: Diary and Letter Pastiche in Neo-Victorian Fiction’)
            • 2013: Leicester (‘The Negotiation of Feminisms and Queer Theories in the Novels of Sarah Waters, 1998-2009’)
            • 2013: Exeter (‘Female Sexuality in French Naturalism and Realism, and British New Woman Fiction, 1850-1900’)
            • 2013: Royal Holloway (‘Individualism, the New Woman, and Marriage in the Novels of Mary Ward, Sarah Waters, and Lucas Malet’)
            • 2020: Surrey (‘Sartorial Spectres: Re-Fashioning the Past in the Neo-Victorian Novel’)
            • 2020: Glasgow (‘Oscar Wilde’s Queer Afterlives: Sexuality in Post- and Neo-Victorian Wildeana’)
            • 2020: Birkbeck (‘“The spectres of past lessons, imperfectly erased”: Queer History and the Palimpsest in the Fiction of Sarah Waters’)

            Supervisions

            Fields

            • Women's writing, Victorian to contemporary
            • Gender and sexuality, Victorian to contemporary
            • The New Woman and Victorian feminism 
            • Fin-de-siecle literature and culture
            • Neo-Victorianism; neo-historical studies

            Current research students (primary supervision)

            • Karen Power, ‘George Egerton: Constructions of Identity at the Fin de Siècle’’ (part-time; 2016-)
            • Arwa Al-Mubaddel, ‘The Feminist Metaself and Metamodernism in British Women’s Writing, 1960s to 1990s’ (2019-)

             Postdoctoral mentoring

            I am keen to work with postdoctoral scholars interested in my fields, and have previously mentored two externally funded projects (on motoring in turn-of-the-century women's writing, funded by the SSHRCC, and on the New Woman and religion, funded by three AHRC/BA/ESRC Visiting Fellowships).

            Current supervision

            Karen Power

            Karen Power

            Research student

            Contact Details

            Email HeilmannA@cardiff.ac.uk
            Telephone +44 29208 75619
            Campuses John Percival Building, Room 2.29, Colum Drive, Cardiff, CF10 3EU

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