Dr Katy Birch
BA MA (Wales) PhD (Birmingham)
Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Department of English & Creative Writing
Contact Details
- Email: ctb@aber.ac.uk
- ORCID: 0000-0001-6592-2119
- Office: D21, Hugh Owen Building
- Phone: +44 (0) 1970 628481
- Personal Website: https://ladieswhopunchbiogs.wordpress.com/
- Twitter: @KatyEBirch
- Research Portal Profile
Teaching
Module Coordinator
- EN30040 - Undergraduate Dissertation
- EN31320 - The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s
- WL10120 - Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature
Lecturer
- EN21620 - Contemporary Queer Fiction
- EN30040 - Undergraduate Dissertation
- WL10120 - Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature
- WR20620 - Writing Selves
- EN30320 - Victorian Childhoods
- ENM1720 - Sensational Sales: Victorian Popular Literature 1848-1894
- EN20120 - Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
- WL20720 - A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s
- EN11320 - Critical Practice
Coordinator
- EN31320 - The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s
- WL10120 - Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature
- EN30040 - Undergraduate Dissertation
Tutor
- WL10120 - Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature
- EN30040 - Undergraduate Dissertation
- WRM6060 - Writer as Practitioner 2
Katy's main teaching interests are in Romantic and Victorian literature. She teaches on the undergraduate modules The Mark of the Beast, Nineteenth-Century Literature and Creative Practice and the MA modules Romanticism's Radical Cultures and Poetry After Darwin. She also contributes to a range of other undergraduate modules.
Research
Katy's research focuses on Victorian women's writing, particularly poetry. Her PhD thesis examined the use of imagery of Darwinian evolution by feminist poets in the last decades of the nineteenth century. She is currently working on a monograph about female contributors to Punch magazine in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Publications
Birch, K 2022, 'Beyond the Punch Dinners: Female Writers and the Importance of Home and Family in the Creation of Punch', Paper presented at Research Society for Victorian Periodicals 2022 Annual Conference, 15 Sept 2022 - 17 Sept 2022.
Birch, K 2022, '‘I roll my cigarette, and cycle to my club’: Playing with Stereotypes and Subverting Anti-Feminism in New Woman Writers’ Contributions to Punch', Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens, vol. 96. 10.4000/cve.11788
Birch, K 2021, 'Women Writing the New Woman in Punch Magazine', Paper presented at Women and Humour in the Long Nineteenth Century, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 23 Jun 2021 - 26 Jun 2021.
Birch, K 2019, 'Autumn' Envoi, no. 181, pp. 30.
Birch, K 2019, Blind, Mathilde. in L Scholl (ed.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing. Springer Nature. 10.1007/978-3-030-02721-6_126-1
More publications on the Research Portal