Nineteenth-Century Matters is an initiative jointly run by the British Association for Romantic Studies and the British Association for Victorian Studies. Now in its tenth year, it is aimed at postdoctoral researchers who have completed their PhD, but who are not currently employed in a full-time academic post. Nineteenth-Century Matters offers unaffiliated early career researchers a platform from which to pursue their research, while also organising an academic event on a theme related to nineteenth-century studies or a workshop focused on an aspect of professionalisation.
BARS and BAVS are thrilled to announce that the Nineteenth-Century Matters Fellowship 2026 has been awarded to Dr Charlotte Wilson. Charlotte will receive mentorship from Dr Clare Horrocks and Dr Jamie Whitehead at Liverpool John Moores University.
Charlotte Wilson has recently completed her PhD in English Literature at the University of Oxford examining the representation of domestic caregivers in nineteenth-century medical literature and fictional novels. Her research considers how ideas about home caregiving were shaped in the medical and cultural imagination, drawing attention to the caregiver as an important agent in medical treatment and exploring how print culture wrestles with the pleasures and challenges of caregiving relationships. Charlotte’s broader research interests include the histories of domesticity and the family, disability studies, and the medical humanities.
For more information about this scheme and other funding opportunities, please visit our website: www.bars.ac.uk.
Dr Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman
BARS Early Career Officer
12/06/26