Dr Fiona Snailham BA, MA, PhD, PGCE

Lecturer in English Literature

Dr Fiona Snailham joined the University of Greenwich as a full-time Lecturer in English Literature in 2022. Before this, she taught at Greenwich on a part-time basis whilst working as an Associate Lecturer for the Open University. She convenes the ‘Literature of the Gothic' module for year 3 students and teaches on the MA Literary London as well as teaching across the Undergraduate English Literature programme.

English

English language and literature

Responsibilities within the university

Undergraduate Teaching (2022-3)

  • Module lead for the level 6 module ‘The Literature of the Gothic’.
  • Module Tutor on the level 6 core module, ‘Lit & Publishing, 1820 – today’.
  • Module Tutor on the level 4 core module ‘Literary Forms of Representation.
  • Guest lecturer on ‘Case Studies in Short Fiction’.

Postgraduate Teaching (2022-3)

  • ‘Imagining the Metropolis’ – seminars on Wordsworth. Blake, De Quincey and Dickens.
  • ‘Commerce of Vice’ – seminar on Frances Burney and Ignatius Sancho.
  • ‘Research Skills for Literary Studies’ – guest seminar leader.

Awards
  • Research Funding Award, British Association for Victorian Studies (2021)
  • Research Scholarship, Gladstone’s Library (2018)
  • Santander Networking Awards (2018, 2017)
  • Travel Award, Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (2017)
  • Travel Bursary, British Association for Victorian Studies (2017)
  • Vice Chancellor’s Research Scholarship, University of Greenwich (2016-2019)

Recognition
  • Book Reviews Co-Editor, Victorian Popular Fictions Journal (2020 - )
  • Contributing Reviewer, ‘The Novel’, Section XIII ‘The Victorian Period’, The Year’s Work in English Studies (2021 - )
  • Treasurer, Victorian Popular Fiction Association.

Member: British Association for Victorian Studies, Victorian Popular Fiction Association, International Gothic Association.

Research / Scholarly interests

Dr Snailham’s research interests include Victorian spiritualism, women’s writing and nineteenth-century popular fiction.  Her first monograph, Eliza Lynn Linton, is due for publication as part of EER’s Key Popular Women Writers series in spring 2023. The book places its subject in new contexts, positioning Lynn Linton as a producer of popular texts designed to intervene in the key debates of her time and establishing her as a key participant in the nineteenth-century knowledge economy.

Recent publications

Articles

  • Snailham, F. ‘My Sister Haunts me: Sororal Spectres and the “Otherness” of Female Desire in the Mid-Nineteenth Century Ghost Story’, Women’s Writing, Winter 2021.

Book Sections

  • ‘Eliza Lynn Linton’ in Scholl, L. (ed) The Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Victorian Women’s Writing (online September 2019, print forthcoming)
  • ‘Beatrice Harraden’ in Scholl, L. (ed) The Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Victorian Women’s Writing (online September 2019, print forthcoming)
  • ‘The Rebel of the Family’ and ‘Beatrice Harraden’ – 250 and 350 word entries in Morrison, K.A. (ed) A Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction, North Carolina: McFarland, 2018.

Reviews

  • Snailham F. and Burke, L. ‘The Novel’, Section XIII ‘The Victorian Period’, The Year’s Work in English Studies, Autumn 2022 (forthcoming)
  • Margee, V. British Women’s Short Supernatural Fiction, 1860-1930, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2019 in  Victorian Popular Fictions Journal, 2.2, Autumn 2020.
  • Camilla Mork Rostvik and Ella Louise Sutherland (eds), Suffragette Legacy: How Does The History of Feminism Inspire Current Thinking in Manchester, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015, in Women’s History, Spring 2018