Goldsmiths - University of London

Rachael Newberry

Rachael Newberry trained as a nurse in Intensive Care before giving up the healthcare profession to pursue her academic interests. Following a first degree from UWE and MA in English from Cardiff University, she completed her PhD in English at Birkbeck College in 2005. She has since taught at Birkbeck, Royal Holloway, Westminster and London Metropolitan Universities. She is an Associate Lecturer at Goldsmiths, teaching and convening on the 1^st year undergraduate module Analytical Vocabularies and the 2^nd year Shakespeare and Renaissance Theatre module. She also supervises dissertation students in the areas of women’s writing and the representation of women without the Dramatic Arts. 

Rachael’s research interests are in gastro-criticism, the body and themes of consumption and self-denial, particularly within the nineteenth-century. She has a special interest in literary and critical theory.

Book Review

Lisa Baraister. Maternal Encounters: The Ethics of Interruption in Women: A Cultural Review, vol.21, no.2, 2010.