Catherine Pope

Doctoral Researcher
Department of English
University of Sussex

email: C.Pope@sussex.ac.uk

Education

2010 – DPhil Candidate, University of Sussex (part-time)

2008 – MA Victorian Studies (distinction), Birkbeck College, University of London (part-time)

Publications

Books

Notable Women Authors of the Day (2011) – with Troy Bassett

Critical edition of Love’s Conflict by Florence Marryat (forthcoming in 2012)

Reviews

New Woman Fiction – Review 19

Let the Flowers Go: A Life of Mary Cholmondeley by Carolyn Oulton – The Latchkey 

The Wing of Azrael by Mona Caird - Victorian Popular Fiction Association Newsletter (Spring 2011)

Conferences

Organisation

September 2009 – Victorian Popular Novelists, 1860-1900

July 2010 – Victorian Popular Culture: Prose, Stage and Screen

July 2011 – Sex, Courtship and Marriage in Victorian Popular Culture

Papers

Woman Against Woman: Florence Marryat vs Geraldine Jewsbury (Victorian Popular Culture, London, July 2010)

Chair

Sexuality and Representation Panel (Sex, Courtship and Marriage in Victorian Popular Culture, London, July 2011)

Editorial

Communications Editor, Victorian Network

Memberships

Victorian Popular Fiction Association (Postgraduate Representative)

British Association of Victorian Studies

The Trollope Society

The Victorian Society

Research

The regulation of female identity in the novels of Florence Marryat

I am supervised by Jenny Bourne Taylor

Additional research interests

Lesser-known Victorian women writers, including Rhoda Broughton, Charlotte Riddell, John Strange Winter and Edna Lyall; sensation fiction; digital humanities.

Teaching

• Intermediate Endnote
• Digital Researcher Workshop
• Effective search engine strategies
• Bibliographic management with Zotero
• Managing your research with Evernote
• Writing your thesis with Scrivener
• E-publishing

Professional Development

• July 2011: Inbox Zero and Tech-Task Lists: Getting Things Done
• June 2011: Using Twitter in Your Research
• November 2010: Writing for publication for early-career researchers
• October 2010: Maximise your research impact: engaging with open access publishing
• October 2010: Supporting researchers with open access
• August 2010: Intermediate NVivo
• August 2010: Introduction to NVivo

IT Skills

Before beginning my academic career, I worked for 14 years in IT management and web development.  My experience includes: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, PHP, Coldfusion, MySQL, SQL Server, WordPress, Mediawiki and Moodle.