Oxford Brookes UniversityInternational Nineteenth-Century Research Cluster
International Nineteenth-Century Research Cluster
…bridging centuries, cultures and continents…
Oxford Brookes possesses a wide range of academic expertise in arts and humanities-based research into 19th-century topics.
To facilitate cross-disciplinary projects, and to make it easier for postgraduate applicants to consider the range of staff specialisms in this area, we have formed the International Nineteenth-Century Research Cluster. As the name suggests, the cluster’s reach extends well beyond Victorian studies, both in its chronological sweep and in its attention to the history, literature, music and art of other countries and continents. The link provided for each of the names on the staff list to the right will take you to a page offering details of the individual’s research interests and publications. You will also find further links to postgraduate taught courses related to this period, and details of recent research seminars and projects.
Inaugural lecture
On Wednesday 4 May 2011, best-selling historian Judith Flanders captivated a large and enthusiastic audience at Oxford Brookes University with her inaugural lecture for the International Nineteenth-Century Research Cluster.
Flanders, who has published four much-praised, best-selling interdisciplinary studies of Victorian life, used the platform to discuss differing approaches to narrative in nineteenth-century artworks, including serialised novels, plays and paintings.
A question and answer session followed, with Flanders’ analysis of painter Augustus Leopold Egg’s triptych ‘Past and Present’ giving rise to a particularly lively discussion of topics ranging from adultery to infanticide.
Members of the public had an opportunity to meet Judith Flanders at the drinks reception that followed and to mingle with staff and students from Brookes and from the University of Oxford.
Judith Flanders’ latest book is The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection, and Created Modern Crime (2011), which was serialised as Radio 4’s Book of the Week.
