St Hugh’s Belcher Visiting Fellow in Victorian Studies, Lucy Hartley, is Professor of English at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She was born and educated in the United Kingdom, and received a BA (Hons) from the University of Oxford and a D.Phil. from the University of York. After teaching at the University of Southampton for eleven years, she joined the faculty at the University of Michigan in 2006.
She specialises in nineteenth-century literature and culture, and her work contributes to both the intellectual history of nineteenth-century Britain and the broad interdisciplinary project of understanding the social transformations of modernity. She is the author of two monographs, Physiognomy and the Meaning of Expression in Nineteenth-Century Culture (2001/2006), and Democratising Beauty in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Art and the Politics of Public Life (2017/2019), and the editor of The History of British Women’s Writing 1830-1880 (2018). She is currently working on two projects. On Commercial Street, E1. Henrietta Barnett and the War on Poverty is a sociobiography, which narrates the life of a remarkable woman campaigning for the poor and the life of a remarkable social movement against poverty during a transitional period in British culture. 1884 At the Whitechapel Exhibition is a digital gallery, in partnership with the Whitechapel Gallery, which will reconstruct and reimagine the visual experience of the 1884 Whitechapel Fine Art Loan Exhibition.
