Dr Katy Birch

BA MA (Wales) PhD (Birmingham)

Module Coordinator

• AB2 The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s (EN31320)
• AB2 Poetry After Darwin (ENM3320)
• AB1 Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature (WL10120)
• AB1 Independent Research Project (WL30140)

Lecturer

• AB1 A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s (WL20720)
• AB1 Critical Practice (EN11320)
• AB1 Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues (EN20120)
• 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)
• AB2 Writing Selves (WR20620)

Tutor

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

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.