Dr Tricia Zakreski

I am an Associate Professor in Victorian Literature and Culture. My main research interests are women’s writing and women’s work and art and design history in the Victorian period. My current work explores the relationship between authorship and the decorative arts in the second half of the nineteenth century, and I am currently writing a monograph entitled Designing the Novel: Women’s Writing and the Decorative Arts. More broadly, I am interested in the interactions of different forms of art in the nineteenth century and the interplay between aesthetics and economics.

Research supervision:

I would welcome applications from students who would like to work on Victorian literature and visual or material culture in the nineteenth century, or women's writing in all its forms. I would also be interested in supervising projects on women and work on Victorian literature's interactions with art, craft, design, material culture, textiles, the decorative arts, and/or dress.