An aerial view of Singleton Campus and the bay opposite
Dr Alice Barnaby

Dr Alice Barnaby

Associate Professor, English Literature

Telephone number

+44 (0) 1792 604441
Office - 204
Second Floor
Keir Hardie Building
Singleton Campus
Available For Postgraduate Supervision

About

My research and teaching expertise lie in the literature and material culture of the long nineteenth century. My work investigates the relationship between perceptual experience and nineteenth-century modernity. I conduct historicised readings of literary and visual sources in light of current debates concerning theories of affect, ontology and material agency. This work rethinks established methodologies of cultural materialism. Publications include the recent monograph, Light Touches: Cultural Practices of Illimuniation, London 1800-1900 (2017).

Areas Of Expertise

  • Practices of lighting
  • Nineteenth-century visual culture
  • Nineteenth-century literary culture
  • Aesthetics
  • Theories of material culture