Professor Deborah Wynne
Professor
Biography
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 teaches on the BA and MA 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 supervises MRes and PhD students.
Teaching and Supervision
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 has examined fourteen PhD theses. Among the modules that Deborah teaches are: Women's Writing: Journeys from Home, 1840-1970; Fictional Worlds; Victorian Literature; Twenetieth-Century Literature.
Research and Knowledge Exchange
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. Previously, she has published books on the 1860s sensation novel and women and property in Victorian literature and culture.