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Nineteenth Century British literature, Victorian studies, British Romanticism, Victorian literature, Romantic literature, colonial print culture, race theory, history of science
United Kingdom

Biography

Dr. Lars Atkin has research interests in Victorian and Romantic literature; missionary writing; ethnography and displayed peoples; and the literatures and institutions of the British settler colonies. Their latest monograph, 'Writing The South African San:Colonial Ethnographic Discourses' (Palgrave, 2021) draws on frameworks from critical anthropology, critical indigenous studies, imperial history and literary studies to show the role that literary representations of Indigenous people played in popularising hierarchical views of racial difference in the long nineteenth century. They are also co-author of 'Early Public Libraries and Colonial Citizenship in the British Southern Hemisphere (Palgrave, 2019, with Sarah Comyn et al) and co-editor with Emily Bell of The Curran Index, an open-access database of over 168,000 attributions for articles from the Victorian press. http://curranindex.org/

Activities

Employment (3)

University of Kent: Canterbury, GB

2019-09-01 to present | Lecturer in Victorian Literature (School of English)
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Goldsmiths University of London: London, London, GB

2019-01-01 to present | Associate Lecturer in Postcolonial and Global History (History)
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University College Dublin: Dublin, IE

2017-03-01 to present | ERC funded postdoc on SouthHem project (English, Drama and Film)
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Education and qualifications (3)

Queen Mary University of London: London, London, GB

2012-10-01 to 2017-01-05 | PhD (English and Drama)
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Queen Mary University of London: London, London, GB

2011-09 to 2012-08 | MA (English and Drama)
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University of Oxford: Oxford, Oxfordshire, GB

2003-10-01 to 2006-06-20 | BA (English)
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Professional activities (3)

Research Society for Victorian Periodicals: Baltimore, US

2019-02-01 to present
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British Association for Victorian Studies: Dundee, GB

2015-09-01 to present
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Postcolonial Studies Association: London, GB

2014-09-01 to present
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Funding (3)

‘Migrating Forms: Transculturation and Transnational Imaginaries in Early Anglophone Newspaper Poetry, 1820-1860.’

2019-10 to 2021-10 | Grant
Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (Dublin, Ireland, IE)
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IRC-GOIPD/2019/815

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"Migrating Forms: Transculturation and Transnational Imaginaries in Early Anglophone Newspaper Poetry (1820-1860)."

2019-10 to 2020-03 | Grant
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (Baltimore, US)
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Settler Social Identities: Rational Recreation in the Colonies in the Long Nineteenth Century

2018-08 to 2019-08 | Grant
UCD College of Arts and Humanities (Dublin, IE)
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Works (6)

Early Public Libraries and Colonial Citizenship in the British Southern Hemisphere

2019 | Book
Contributors: Lara Atkin; Sarah Comyn; Porscha Fermanis; Nathan Garvey
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'The South African 'Children of the Mist": The Bushman, the Highlander and the Making of Colonial Identities in Thomas Pringle's South African Poetry, 1825-1834

2018 | Journal article
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Exploration and Time/Travel in H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine

Crossing Borders in Victorian Travel: Spaces, Nations and Empires
2018-01-01 | Book chapter
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Looking at the Other/Seeing the Self: Embodied Performance and Encounter in Brett Bailey’s Exhibit B and Nineteenth-Century Ethnographic Displays

Safundi
2015-04-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Lara Atkin
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Popular Exhibitions, Science and Showmanship, 1840-1910

Journal of Victorian Culture
2015-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Lara Atkin
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The Making of British Anthropology, 1837–1871

Journal of Victorian Culture
2014-01-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Lara Atkin
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