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Dr Jude Piesse

Humanities and Social Science

Faculty of Arts Professional and Social Studies

Email: J.I.Piesse@ljmu.ac.uk

Telephone: 0151 231 3844

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I am a Senior Lecturer in English Literature working within the Research Institute for Literature and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University. My most recent book, The Ghost in the Garden: in search of Darwin’s lost garden (Scribe, 2021), blends biography, nature writing, memoir, and historical research to tell the story of Darwin’s childhood garden. My monograph British Settler Emigration in Print, 1832–1877 (Oxford University Press, 2016) is about the literary and print culture of nineteenth-century emigration from Britain.

Other recent publications and projects have spanned the practice of fiction and creative non-fiction, the environmental humanities, animal studies, women’s writing, archival research, and nineteenth-century garden history.

I have co-organised five collaborative public engagement projects with partners including Sefton Park Palm House, Shropshire Museum Service, and Shropshire Wildlife Trust. I have also disseminated my writing and research widely via national and international media broadcasts and public talks.

I currently lead the MA module 7106ENGLIT Place: Imagining Place in Modern Times and the new L6 module 6128ENGL Developments in Contemporary Writing and Publishing. I teach on a range of other modules, usually including 4108ENGL Environment, Culture and Technology and 6109ENGL Our House: Representing Domestic Space.

I supervise or co-supervise a number of PhD projects within the department, including:

-‘The Letters, Life and Legacy of Susannah Darwin, née Wedgwood (1765-1817)’ (as lead supervisor).
-‘Communicating with the Other: Cultural representations of spiritual and technological communication from 1880-1930’
- Two PhDs by Publication, titles tbc.
- 'Becoming a Domestic Science Teacher: Students at F. L. Calder's School for Teacher Training, 1915-1925'

Degrees

2013, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom, PhD in English
2009, King's College London, London, United Kingdom, MA in English Literature (1850-Present)
2004, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom, MA in Creative Writing (Prose)
2001, University of Leeds, United Kingdom, BA in English

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