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Professor of English Literature

Adrienne E. Gavin  BA (Auckland 1986), LLB (Hons), (Auckland 1986), MA (Hons) (Auckland 1988), MPhil (Criminology) (Cambridge 1993), PhD (British Columbia 1994).

Office: Es12
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On Leave Term 2  2011-2012

Adrienne Gavin has a background in Law, Criminology, and English Literature and has taught in New Zealand, Canada, France, and Britain. She is Director of Research for the Department of English and Language Studies, Research Coordinator for MPhil/PhD students in English, and Programme Convenor for the MA programme in English Literature. She is Module Director for a range of courses in Victorian Literature and Children's Literature including the MA module "Victorian Crime Fiction" and and the undergraduate module "Victorian Sensations."

She has research interests in Victorian Literature, Edwardian Literature, Crime Fiction, Childhood in Literature, Children's Literature, Women's Writing,  Biography, Textual Editing, and the Short Story.

Current research projects include a biography of Caroline Clive, work on Victorian fictional female detectives, and ongoing research on Anna Sewell, Mary Sewell, and Black Beauty  including an edition of Black Beauty for Oxford World's Classics. She is also currently editing the essay collection Robert Cormier: A New Casebook  for Palgrave Macmillan and co-editing with Andrew Humphries the collections Transport in British Fiction: Technologies of Movement, 1840-1940 and The Child and Crime in British Fiction. 

She was co-convenor with Andrew Humphries of Childhood in its Time|: The Child in British Literature International Conference (March 2009) and with Carolyn Oulton of the Women Writers of the Fin de Siècle conference held in London in June 2010.

Also see Professor Gavin's entry on our research page|.

 

Selected Publications

The Child in British Literature: Literary Constructions of Childhood Medieval to Contemporary.  Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2012. Editor.

Writing Women of the Fin de Siècle: Authors of Change. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2011. Co-edited with Carolyn Oulton.

The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective (1894) by C. L. Pirkis. London: Pickering & Chatto. 2010. Editor. 

The Blue Lagoon (1908). By Henry de Vere Stacpoole. Valancourt Classics. Kansas City: Valancourt Books 2010. Editor.

Childhood in Edwardian Fiction: Worlds Enough and Time. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Co-edited with Andrew Humphries. Awarded the Children's Literature Association Edited Book Award 2011.

Paul Ferroll (1855) by Caroline Clive. Valancourt Classics. Kansas City: Valancourt Books, 2008. Editor.

Re-Embroidering the Robe: Faith, Myth and Literary Creation Since 1850. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. Co-edited with Suzanne Bray and Peter Merchant.

Dark Horse: A Life of Anna Sewell. Stroud, Glos: Sutton Publishing, 2004. The proposal for this volume won the 2000 Biographers' Club Prize .

Mystery in Children's Literature: From the Rational to the Supernatural. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan,  2001. Co-edited with Christopher Routledge.

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. Wordsworth Classics. Ware: Wordsworth, 1999. Introduction, bibliography, and notes.