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Dr Emily Cuming

Humanities and Social Science

Faculty of Arts Professional and Social Studies

Email: E.M.Cuming@ljmu.ac.uk

Telephone: 0151 231 3076

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My main research interests centre on British literature, culture and social history from the nineteenth century to the present day. My first monograph, Housing, Class and Gender in Modern British Writing, 1880-2012 (Cambridge University Press, 2016) is a literary study of Britain’s housing story through the peripheral settings of slums, boarding houses, bedsits and council estates. My second book, Maritime Relations: Life, Labour and Literature at the Water's Edge, 1830-1914 (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2025) explores the figure of the ordinary sailor, maritime families, and questions of class and literary culture in the long nineteenth century. My other research projects focus on: ‘ordinary’ life writing and the archive; working-class girlhood in Victorian and Edwardian Britain; representations of orphanages and institutionalised childhood; port cities and material culture.

Before joining the department in January 2017 I was a Research Fellow for three years in the School of English at the University of Leeds. Prior to that I lived and worked in Los Angeles, California for seven years, teaching literature and interdisciplinary humanities at Scripps College, Harvey Mudd College, the University of Redlands, and Whittier College.

I lead three undergraduate modules: 5125ENGL Life Stories; 6109ENGL Our House: Representing Domestic Space; 3109FDNENG Waterscapes. I also teach on the MA course 7106ENGLIT Place: Imagining Place in Modern Times.

I am currently supervising three PhD projects and warmly welcome enquiries from students considering doctoral research in any of my research areas.

I am an editor of Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism and an editorial board member of the Journal of Victorian Culture. With Dr Lucinda Matthews-Jones, I co-lead the Home and Domestic Cultures research network at LJMU. I am a committee member of the Research Institute for Literature and Cultural History and a board member of the Centre for Port and Maritime History.

Degrees

2006, University of Manchester, UK, PhD
2002, University of Manchester, UK, MA
2001, University of Manchester, UK, BA Hons English & Russian

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