Dr Susan McPherson BA, MA, PhD
Senior Lecturer
Summary
I took my BA English Literature degree at the University of York (First Class), followed by an MA Life Writing (AHRC funded) in the same institution. I received my PhD 'Victorian Life Writing and the Production of Scandal' from the University of Cambridge (AHRC funded). I am currently a Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at Sheffield Hallam University.
About
I am preparing two papers at present - one on Gissing's New Grub Street and unemployment, and one on Margaret Harkness, Socialism and Women's Oppression. These papers have been developed out of earlier research on class and reading (see my chapter in The Masculine MiddleBrow). My current research is being developed into a monograph. I am also interested in digital humanities techniques, which I use in my teaching.
Life writing of the 'long' nineteenth century
Victorian literary production and consumption
Research
A monograph, 'Victorian Life Writing and Work: Labour, Leisure and Authority'
Publications
Journal articles
McPherson, S. (2017). Gissing’s New Grub Street and the Wider Concerns of Impoverishment. English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, 60 (4), 490-505. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/657893
McPherson, S. (2013). Companionship and Collaboration: Marian Evans, George Henry Lewes, and The Life and Works of Goethe. The Victorian, 1 (2), 1-12.
Mcpherson, S. (2006). On being "tempted to knit": writing, reviewing and reading biography. Nineteenth-century contexts. http://doi.org/10.1080/08905490600691523
Mcpherson, S. (2001). Opening the open secret: the Stowe-Byron controversy. Victorian review, 27 (1), 86-101. http://web.uvic.ca/victorianreview/index.html
Book chapters
Mcpherson, S. (2011). Reading class, examining men: anthologies, education, and literary cultures. In Macdonald, K. (Ed.) The masculine middlebrow, 1880-1950 : what Mr. Miniver read. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
Theses / Dissertations
Daly, M.J. (2011). From Sheffield to Raleigh:a Radical Publishing Network in the Age of Revolution. (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Major, E., Mcpherson, S., & Taylor, A.