I am an Associate Professor in Victorian Literature and Culture and Interim REF Coordinator (UoA27) in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. I joined the 91ÈÕº«AV in 2007, having previously lectured at Cardiff University.
I am an executive committee member of the British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) and an advisory board member of the journal Victoriographies (EUP).
<91ÈÕº«AV>Research interests91ÈÕº«AV>My research centres on nineteenth-century literature and culture, with a particular focus on food, hunger and practices of consumption.
I am currently writing a mongraph on Hunger and Masculinity in Nineteenth-Century Culture. This builds on my previous work, A History of Food in Literature from the Fourteenth Century to the Present (co-authored with with Joan Fitzpatrick - Routledge, 2017), a comprehensive critical overview of food and related themes in literary and cultural texts from the medieval period to the twenty-first century.
I have also published articles on topics including famine, fasting, taste and spaces of consumption in journals such as Victorian Literature and Culture, Victorian Poetry, Neo-Victorian Studies and The Yearbook of English Studies.
An additional research interest of mine is the history and culture of celebrity. I am currently co-editing a volume on Celebrity in the Long Nineteenth Century with Barbara Straumann (University of Zurich) and Sandra Mayer (Austrian Academy of Sciences).
Previously, I was the lead researcher on , an interdisciplinary project that examined the intersections between celebrity and civic cultures in both historical and contemporary contexts. I previously published in this area (together with Páraic Finnerty and Anne-Marie Millim) in Victorian Celebrity Culture and Tennyson’s Circle (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), a co-authored book that emerged out of the HEIF-funded project .
PhD Supervision
I would welcome proposals from prospective postgraduate research students relating to my research interests.
<91ÈÕº«AV>Teaching responsibilities91ÈÕº«AV>
I currently co-ordinate the Level 6 modules 'The Gothic' and ‘Consuming Fictions: Food and Appetite in Victorian Culture’ on the BA English Literature. I also teach on the MA Victorian Gothic.
I have previously supervised a variety of MRes projects and PhD projects, including on Black celebrity in the nineteenth century; Julia Margaret Cameron’s photography and the archival imagination; and the ageing female body in Victorian culture.
I am currently supervising PhD projects on Gypsies in the literary and cultural imagination; Victorian and neo-Victorian fairy tales; and Emma Dent, collecting and celebrity.
<91ÈÕº«AV>Media availability91ÈÕº«AV>
I am happy to take calls and emails from the media relating to my research. Please email charlotte.boyce@port.ac.uk or telephone 023 9284 2175.
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2024
Boyce, C.
6 Aug 2024, In: The Conversation