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Dr Victoria Bovalino

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Dr Victoria Bovalino

Position

Lecturer, Head of Pathway for the MA Children's Literature: Creative Writing

Department

English and Creative Writing

Email

v.bovalino (@gold.ac.uk)

Victoria is a novelist and researcher, specialising in young adult and genre fiction.

Victoria Bovalino is originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and currently lives north of London. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Royal Holloway, University of London. As a researcher, her work focuses on young adult and children’s literature and storyworlds within genre fiction. She is the author of The Devil Makes Three, Not Good for Maidens, My Throat an Open Grave, and edited and contributed to The Gathering Dark. Tori is a lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she leads the Creative Writing pathway on the Children’s Literature MA programme.

Academic qualifications

  • PhD in English and Creative Writing from Royal Holloway, University of London 2023
  • MA in Creative Writing from Royal Holloway, University of London 2019
  • BA in English & Anthropology from the University of Pittsburgh 2017

Research interests

Tori's research focuses on young adult and genre fiction. She is interested in liminality in writing for young people, dissecting form and structure within YA, the interaction between craft and market in genre fiction, and topics within horror and fantasy fiction.

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