Dr Jim Scown
Research Associate
Overview
I am a postgraduate researcher funded by the South, West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership (SWW DTP). My research examines the relationship between soils, science and literary realism in Victorian Britain. As part of the SWW DTP joint supervision programme, I am supervised by Professor Martin Willis at Cardiff and Professor Ralph Pite at Bristol.
Publication
2021
- Scown, J. 2021. Soils, science, and the English realist novel: 1840-1872. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
Thesis
- Scown, J. 2021. Soils, science, and the English realist novel: 1840-1872. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
Research
Literature and Science; Environmental Humanities, focussing on Victorian Ecocriticism; Medical Humanities
Teaching
I teach seminars on the first-year undergraduate modules, 'Critical Reading' and Critical Writing in the autumn semester and 'Ways of Reading' module in the spring.
