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
Semester 1 office hours: Thursday 10-11 (drop-in, no appointment needed)
Semester 2 office hours: Thursday 1-2 (drop-in, no appointment needed)
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 censorship, and literature and medicine, and nineteenth-century literature. The literature and medicine courses are open to honours 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 (Lead 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). Katherine worked with the Carlyle Letters Project on the Duke-Edinburgh edition of The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle. 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 collections of essays on Elizabeth Gaskell and Scottish medicine and literary culture. Her recent work focuses on historical and current ideas of obscenity.
Co-Director, Edinburgh Health and Medical Humanities Network
Disable.Ed Network Committee
English & Scottish Literature Undergraduate Exams Team
Course Organiser: Literature & Medicine Research Project
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