Personal profile
Academic Biography
Siobhan graduated with a First-Class Honours Degree in English Studies from Teesside University in 2022. During which, she received the Professor Leni Oglesby Prize for Achievement and the Book Corner Prize for Best Performance. She continued her studies at Canterbury Christ Church University, and in 2023 she gained a Masters (with Distinction) in English Literature.
Siobhan is particularly interested in nineteenth-century literature, women’s facial hair, gender and digital humanities. She has presented papers on digital humanities methods for expanding and analysing corpora, joyful expressions of gender and Victorian masculinity.
Education/Academic qualification
Master, English Literature (with Distinction), Canterbury Christ Church University
1 Oct 2022 → 1 Oct 2023
Award Date: 10 Oct 2023
Bachelor, English Studies (First Class Honours), Teesside University
20 Sept 2019 → 20 May 2022
Award Date: 1 Jun 2022
External positions
Membership Secretary, Victorian Popular Fiction Association (VPFA)
1 May 2025 → 30 Apr 2028
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Using Digital Humanities Methodologies to Expand a Corpus and Challenge the Canon: Looking for Nineteenth-Century Cross-Dressing Narratives
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Joyful Expressions of Gender: The Moustachioed Woman
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Nineteenth-Century Representations of Female Facial Hair
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Visiting the Home of Vernon Lee: ‘Residenza del Palmerino’
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‘I want more, - heaps more': Victorian Masculinity in Rudyard Kipling’s The Light that Failed (1890)
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