Goldsmiths - University of London

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Dr Isobel Hurst

Position held:
Lecturer in English

Phone:
+44 (0)20 7919 7466

Email:
i.hurst (@gold.ac.uk)

Room 413
4th Floor
Warmington Tower

Office hours:
Mon 17.00-18.00
Wed 14.00-15.00

BA (Hons) Classics and English, M.Phil. in English Studies, 1830-1900, D.Phil., University of Oxford; Postdoctoral Junior Research Fellow, Institute of Hellenic and Roman Studies, University of Bristol, 2003-4; Tutor, Universities of Oxford and Warwick, 2004-6; Research Assistant, Reception of the Texts and Images of Ancient Greece in Late Twentieth-Century Drama and Poetry, Open University, 2006; Visiting Assistant Professor, Marlboro College, Vermont, 2006-7; at Goldsmiths since 2007.

Teaching

I teach the following courses: 'Victorians', 'Sensibility and Romanticism', 'Approaches to Text', MA 'Textual Liaisons 2: Readings and Rewritings'.

Professional activities

  • Member of Modern Languages Association
  • Member of British Association of Victorian Studies

Research interests

My research interests are in 19th- and 20th-century poetry and fiction, women's writing, and the reception of classical epic and tragedy.

Selected publications

Books
  • Victorian Women Writers and the Classics: The Feminine of Homer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006)

    • Articles
  • '"Maenads Dancing before the Martyrs' Memorial": Oxford Women Writers and the Classical Tradition,' International Journal of the Classical Tradition, 12 (2005-2006), pp. 163-182.
  • '"A fleet of … inexperienced Argonauts": Oxford women and the Classics, 1873-1920' in Oxford Classics: Teaching and Learning 1800-2000, ed. Christopher Stray (London: Duckworth, 2007), pp.14-27.
  • 'Reanimating the Romans: Mary Shelley's Response to Roman Ruins' in Regarding Romantic Rome, ed. Richard Wrigley (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2007), pp. 125-36.
  • '"The Feminine of Homer": Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Casa Guidi Windows' in Depicting Desire: Gender, Sexuality and the Family in Nineteenth Century Europe: Literary and Artistic Perspectives (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2005)