Susan’s research focuses on Romantic and Victorian literature, with an emphasis on life writing and literary nonfiction, women’s writing, gothic literature, and authorial and textual afterlives. Susan’s first book, Romantic Women’s Life Writing: Reputation and Afterlife was published by Manchester University Press in 2019. She is currently writing a monograph on Mary Shelley commissioned for the Key Popular Women Writers series, to be published in 2025.
Susan has supervised research students working on Romantic and Victorian literature and culture, as well as Neo-Victorian studies. A full list of research student supervision (past and present) can be found below.