Dr Katy Birch

BA MA (Wales) PhD (Birmingham)

Lecturer

• AB1 A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s (WL20720)
• AB2 Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis (EN21120)
• AB1 Critical Practice (EN11320)
• AB1 Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues (EN20120)
• AB2 Queer and Now: 100 years of Queer Writing (ENM0220)
• AB1 Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature (WL10120)
• AB1 Victorian Childhoods (EN30320)
• AB2 We Have Always Been Here: Queer Writing from Antiquity to the Present (WL10820)
• AB1 Writing Crime Fiction (WR32420)
• AB2 Writing Selves (WR20620)

Tutor

• AB1 Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature (WL10120)

Course Viewer

• AB1 Writing Crime Fiction (WR32420)

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.