Dr Beth Rodgers

Lecturer
MA (St Andrews) MA PhD (Belfast) Photograph of Dr Beth Rodgers.

Contact

Email: bjr6@aber.ac.uk
Office: E13
Phone: +44 (0) 1970 621534

Teaching Areas

Beth Rodgers is Lecturer in 19th Century Literature.  She also contributes to modules on literary theory and contemporary literature.

Research

Beth has research interests in the literature and culture of the long nineteenth century, particularly Victorian children’s literature, the New Woman writing and the fin de siècle, Victorian periodicals and print culture, and the history of childhood, adolescence and education. Her doctoral thesis, which she is currently preparing for publication, examined constructions of adolescent girlhood across a range of genres in the late nineteenth century. Beth also has a particular interest in the largely neglected Irish author, L.T. Meade. She is working towards a larger project on Meade’s important role in the development of girls’ literature and in the professionalisation of authorship in the nineteenth century.

Additional Interests

Beth is an executive committee member of the Irish Society for the Study of Children’s Literature.

Staff Publications

‘Irishness, Professional Authorship and the “Wild Irish Girls” of L.T. Meade.’ English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 56.2 (Jan 2013), 131-51, forthcoming.

‘Competing Girlhoods: Competition, Community and Reader Contribution in the Girl’s Own Paper and the Girl’s Realm.’ Victorian Periodicals Review 45.3 (Autumn 2012), forthcoming.

 ‘“Enjoy the last of your schoolgirl life”: Making Transitions in the Girls’ School Stories of L.T. Meade (1844-1914) and Raymond Jacberns (1866-1911).’ What Do We Tell the Children? Critical Essays on Children’s Literature. Eds. Ciara Ní Bhroin and Patricia Kennon. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2012. 163-180.

‘The Younger Victoria: Representations of the Queen’s Girlhood in the Late-Victorian Juvenile Press.’ Victorian Childhoods: Leeds Working Papers in Victorian Studies, Vol. 11.  Eds. Susan Anderson, Rosemary Mitchell and Karen Sayer. 2010. 153-62.

Co-editor, with Nora Maguire (Trinity College Dublin), of a collection of essays on children’s literature, entitled Children’s Literature on the Move: Nations, Translations, Migrations. In progress.

Beth has also contributed reviews to Victorian Periodicals Review, Modern Languages Review and Inis: The Children’s Books Ireland Magazine.