Prof Deborah Wynne
Programme Leader for English Literature; Research Coordinator for the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Deborah Wynne is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Chester. She is a member of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences and Education Research Committee and is the Programme Leader for the BA English Literature programmes. Deborah currently works as part of the management groups of the Culture and Society Research and Knowledge Exchange Institute, as well as the Sustainability and Environment Research and Knowledge Exchange Institute. She teaches on the BA English Literature and MA Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture programmes, as well as supervising MRes and PhD students.
Professor Wynne is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and teaches nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She has supervised seven PhD students and three MRes students to successful completion, and examined fourteen PhD theses. Among the modules that Deborah teaches are: Women's Writing: Journeys from Home, 1840-1970; Fictional Worlds; Victorian Literature; Literature and Film; and Literature and Place.
Professor Deborah Wynne has published widely on a broad range of topics relating to the literature and culture of the long nineteenth century Her recent research interests focus on Victorian material culture, recycling practices, and the work of the Brontë family.
Books
The Edinburgh Companion to the Brontës and the Arts (eds) Deborah Wynne and Amber K. Regis (Edinburgh University Press, 2024).
Victorian Material Culture: Manufactured Objects (eds) Deborah Wynne and Louisa Yates (Routledge, 2022) ISBN 9781138225374.
Charlotte Brontë: Legacies and Afterlives (eds) Amber R. Regis and Deborah Wynne (Manchester University Press, 2017) ISBN 978-1-7849—9246-0.
Women and Personal Property in the Victorian Novel (Routledge, 2016) ISBN 978-0-7546-6766-7.
The Sensation Novel and the Victorian Family Magazine (Palgrave Macmillan, 2001) ISBN 978-0-3337-7666-7.
Articles and book chapters
‘Wilkie Collins’s Journalism’, Wilkie Collins in Context (eds) William Baker and Richard Nemesvari (Cambridge University Press, 2024).
“Men shall not make us foes”: Charlotte Brontë’s Letter Writing and her Female Friendship Networks’, Routledge Companion to Literature and Feminism (eds) Rachel Carroll and Fiona Tolan (Routledge, 2024).
‘Charlotte Brontë’s Gothic Fragment: “The Story of Willie Ellin”’ Victoriographies, 11:1 (March 2021): 20-37.
‘Charlotte Brontë and the Politics of Cloth: The “vile rumbling mills” of Yorkshire’, Brontë Studies 43: 1 (January 2018): 89-99.
‘The “Charlotte” Cult: Writing the Literary Pilgrimage, from Gaskell to Woolf’, in Charlotte Brontë: Legacies and Afterlives (Manchester University Press, 2017): 43-57.
‘Picturing Charlotte Brontë’, co-author Amber K. Regis, in Charlotte Brontë: Legacies and Afterlives(Manchester University Press, 2017): 1-42.
‘Approaching Charlotte Brontë in the Twenty-First Century’, Literature Compass Special Issue: Charlotte Brontë at the Bicentennial, 14:12 (December 2017): 1-8.
‘Reading Victorian Rags: Recycling, Redemption and Dickens’s Ragged Children’, Journal of Victorian Culture20: 1 (2015): 34-49 [Gold Open Access].
‘The “Despised Trade” in Textiles: H.G. Wells, William Paine, Charles Cavers and the Male Draper’s Life, 1870-1914’, Textile History 46:1 (May 2015): 99-113 [Gold Open Access].
‘Arnold Bennett and Material Culture’ in A Companion to Arnold Bennett (ed.) John Shapcott (Leek: Churnet Valley Press, 2015): 193-207.
‘Charlotte Brontë’s Frocks and Shirley’s Queer Textiles’ in Literary Bric-a-Brac and the Victorians: From Commodities to Oddities (eds) Jonathon Shears and Jan Harrison (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2013): 147-163.
‘Miss Havisham’s Dress: Materialising Dickens in Film Adaptations of Great Expectations’ (co-author: Dr Amber Regis), Neo-Victorian Studies [Special Issue: The Other Dickens: Neo-Victorian Appropriation and Adaptation] 5:2 (2012): 35-58 [Open Access].
‘Circulation and Stasis: Feminine Property in the Novels of Charles Dickens’, Dickens, Sexuality and Gender ed. Lillian Nayder (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2012): 593-624.
‘Readers and Reading Practices’ in The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Vol. 3: The Nineteenth-Century Novel 1820-1880, ed. Jenny Bourne Taylor and John Kucich (Oxford University Press, 2011): 22-36 .
‘Critical Responses to Sensation’ in A Companion to Sensation Fiction ed. Pamela Gilbert (Oxford: Blackwell,2011): pp. 389-400.
‘The Victorians’ in Studying English Literature, eds Ashley Chantler and David Higgins (London: Continuum, 2010).
‘The New Woman, Portable Property and The Spoils of Poynton’, The Henry James Review 31:2 (Spring 2010): 142-153.
‘Equivocal Objects: The Problems of Property in Daniel Deronda’, in nineteen: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century (Spring, 2008).
‘Scenes of “Incredible Outrage”: Dickens, Ireland and A Tale of Two Cities’, Dickens Studies Annual vol. 37 (2006/7): 51-64.
‘Hysteria Repeating Itself: Elizabeth Gaskell’s Lois the Witch’, Women’s Writing, 12:1 (2005): 85-97.
‘Responses to the 1851 Great Exhibition in Household Words’, The Dickensian 455:97, Part 3 (Winter 2001/2): 228-34.
‘See What A Big Wide Bed It Is!: Mrs Henry Wood and the Philistine Imagination’, in Emma Liggins and Daniel Duffy (eds) Feminist Readings of Victorian Popular Texts: Divergent Femininities (Ashgate, 2001): 89-107.
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