Dr Asha Hornsby
Research Fellow
- Phone
- +44 (0)1334 46 1878
- arh37@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Office
- Room 102
- Location
- Beethoven Lodge
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Biography
Dr Hornsby holds a BA (English & History) from Exeter, an MA (English) from Durham, and a PhD from UCL. She has taught at UCL, QMUL, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and Nottingham Universities and has been a research fellow at UCL's Institute of Advanced Studies and at the Huntington Library in California. She returned to the School of English in 2024 as a British Academy postdoctoral fellow.
Research areas
Dr Hornsby's research scrutinises the interplay between scientific medicine, public health anxieties, and nineteenth-century literary culture. One key research strand concerns animal experimentation, and her monograph Vivisection and Late-Victorian Literary Culture (Cambridge: CUP, 2025) is the first sustained literary-critical study of the topic. She has published related research in the Victorian Review and the Journal of Victorian Culture.
A second major research strand, supported by the British Academy (2024-27), concerns global seafaring and disease. Her second monograph Contagious Crossings: how marine medicine made waves in Victorian culture is in progress. Meanwhile, watery interests have led to an article which explores nautical metaphors in late-nineteenth century literary culture (Review of English Studies), and a piece about how Scottish ship's surgeons represented Shetlanders as well as indigenous populations they enountered on journeys to and within the Northern whaling grounds. The latter will appear in a volume she is co-editing with Dr Katie Garner; Sounding Scotland's Waters, 1800-1900: History, Literature, Science,Ìýwill be published by EUP in 2027.
Selected publications
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Garner, K. (Editor) & Hornsby, A. (Editor), 2027, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. (Scottish Studies)
Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Hornsby, A., 6 Feb 2025, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 334 p. (Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture; vol. 152)
Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Open access
Hornsby, A., 1 Jan 2024, In: Journal of Victorian Culture. 29, 1, p. 121-139 19 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Hornsby, A., 29 May 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Review of English Studies. Early View, 20 p., hgae036.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Hornsby, A., 1 Jan 2023, In: Journal of British Studies. 62, 1, p. 272-274
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
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Hornsby, A., 11 Nov 2023, The Palgrave encyclopedia of Victorian women's writing. Scholl, L. & Morris, E. (eds.). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 5 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
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Hornsby, A., 2019, In: Victorian Periodicals Review. 45, 1, p. 97-115
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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