Katherine Inglis
Chancellor's Fellow - Senior Lecturer
- English Literature
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Contact details
- Tel: +44 (0)131 650 3617
- Email: K.Inglis@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Edinburgh Research Explorer profile
Address
- Street
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Room 2.05
50 George Square - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9LH
Availability
Outwith the teaching semester, available by appointment. Please contact me to find a mutually convenient time.
Background
Dr Katherine Inglis received her PhD from Birkbeck, University of London, in 2009, and joined the University of Edinburgh as Chancellor’s Fellow in the School of Literatures, Languages & Cultures in 2012.
Undergraduate teaching
Katherine leads courses in English and Scottish literature, censorship, and literature and medicine. The literature and medicine courses are open to fourth-year and postgraduate students enrolled on English Literature and Scottish Literature degree programmes and students enrolled on the Bachelor of Medical Sciences Intercalated Degree (B.Med.Sci) in Literature and Medicine. You can read more about the Literature and Medicine Intercalated Degree here or click on 'Media' below to watch a video about the programme.
Courses that I usually offer include:
- Medicine in Literature 1: Illness Narratives through History
- Medicine in Literature 2: Medical Ethics in Literature
- Literature and Medicine Research Project
- Censorship
- Modern Love: Victorian Poetry and Prose
I also support Introduction to Disability Studies in the School of Health in Social Science.
Postgraduate teaching
Courses that I usually offer include:
- Illness Narratives through History
- Medical Ethics in Literature
- Censorship
- Modern Love: Victorian Poetry and Prose
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
No
Current PhD students supervised
Emma Aviet (Assistant Supervisor)
Laura Brook (Co-Supervisor)
Erin Marty (Assistant Supervisor)
Charley Matthews (Co-Supervisor)
Mari Seaword (Lead Supervisor)
Claudia Sterbini (Lead Supervisor)
Anupama Shukla (Co-Supervisor)
Lara Virrey (Assistant Supervisor)
Past PhD students supervised
Patricia Ayrton (Assistant Supervisor): A Study of the "Post Genetic": Emily Brontë's "EJB" Notebook, 1844 to the Present
Tess Goodman (Assistant Supervisor): “Prized by the Tourist”: Souvenir Books in Victorian Scotland
Research summary
Katherine's research explores the history of reading, the censorship of printed literature, and the intersections between literature of the long nineteenth century, science, and medicine.
She is the author, with Matthew Fellion, of Censored: A Literary History of Subversion & Control (British Library Publishing; McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017). Her work on nineteenth-century literature has been published in the Journal of Victorian Culture, 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, Studies in Hogg and his World, Carlyle Studies Annual, and the George Eliot Review. She has also contributed to recent collections of essays on Elizabeth Gaskell and Scottish medicine and literary culture.
Katherine is working with the Carlyle Letters Project on the Duke-Edinburgh edition of The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle.
Research activities
- Beyond Banned Books
- Welcome Keynote
- Anthologizing obscenity: re-reading the ‘classics’ with Henry Vizetelly to
- 'Trans Visibility in Late-Victorian English Publishing'
- '"Sharpest justice": On censorship, publishing, and English literary history'
- 'Sealed books to the multitude': Henry Vizetelly, radical reading, and the expansion of obscenity.
- English Literature Seminar
- Centre for the History of the Book seminar
- Censorship and the working class reader - celebrating the bicentenary of William Hone's trials
- Pulp Dickens
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The Collected Letters of Thomas Jane Welsh Carlyle 48
Research output: › Scholarly edition (Published) -
The Collected Letters of Thomas Jane Welsh Carlyle 47
(304 pages)
Research output: › Scholarly edition (Published) -
Introduction
Research output: › Chapter (Published) -
Ruth
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02721-6_19-1
Research output: › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary (Published) -
The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle 46
(304 pages)
Research output: › Scholarly edition (Published) -
'Write no more': 10 books that were banned: Banned Books Week Matthew Fellion and Katherine Inglis on works that have been subject to silencing or censorship
(1 page)
Article on newspaper › Other contribution (Published) -
Censored: A Literary History of Subversion and Control
(432 pages)
Research output: › Book (Published) -
Blood and the Revenant in Walter Scott's The Fair Maid of Perth.
Research output: › Chapter (Published) -
Unimagined community and disease in Ruth
(16 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315600543
Research output: › Chapter (Published) -
James Hogg
Research output: › Chapter (Published)
Co-Director, Edinburgh Health and Medical Humanities Network
English & Scottish Literature Exams Team (3rd Year Clerk)
Course Organiser: Literature & Medicine Research Projects
Edinburgh University Students' Association Best Practice in Inclusive Learning and Teaching Award Winner 2018
Edinburgh University Students' Association Best Practice in Inclusive Learning and Teaching Award Runner-Up 2019