Curriculum Vitae
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 2013)
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)
Who Pays for the Butter? Florence Marryat and the Married Women’s Property Acts (Victorian Popular Fiction Association 4th Annual Conference, London, July 2012)
Chair
Sexuality and Representation Panel (Sex, Courtship and Marriage in Victorian Popular Culture, London, July 2011)
Editorial
2011 – 2012 Communications Editor, Victorian Network
Memberships
Victorian Popular Fiction Association (Postgraduate Representative)
British Association of Victorian Studies
North American Victorian Studies Association
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
I have run the following workshops at the University of Sussex:
- Getting the Better of Technology
- Building your Academic Web Presence
- Managing your Bibliographic References with Zotero
- Writing your Thesis with Scrivener
- Capturing your Research with Evernote
- Getting Things Done
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.
