Dr Katy Birch

BA MA (Wales) PhD (Birmingham)

Module Coordinator

• EN30040 - Undergraduate Dissertation
• WL10120 - Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature
• EN31320 - The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s

Lecturer

• ENM1720 - Sensational Sales: Victorian Popular Literature 1848-1894
• EN30320 - Victorian Childhoods
• EN20120 - Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
• WL10120 - Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature
• EN30040 - Undergraduate Dissertation
• EN11320 - Critical Practice
• WR30040 - The Writing Project

Tutor

• EN30040 - Undergraduate Dissertation
• WL10120 - Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature
• WRM6060 - Writer as Practitioner 2
• EN31320 - The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s

Coordinator

• EN30040 - Undergraduate Dissertation
• EN31320 - The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s
• WL10120 - Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature

Katy's main teaching interests are in Romantic and Victorian literature. She teaches on the undergraduate modules The Mark of the Beast, Nineteenth-Century Literature and Creative Practice and the MA modules Romanticism's Radical Cultures and Poetry After Darwin. She also contributes to a range of other undergraduate modules.

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.