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Professor Valerie Sanders

Emeritus Professor of English (retired 30 September 2023)

V.R.Sanders@hull.ac.uk

Qualifications

  • PhD / DPhil (University of Oxford)

Summary

Valerie was born and educated in Hull. She then left the city for 25 years - for undergraduate and postgraduate studies, and for lecturing posts at the Universities of Buckingham and Sunderland - before returning to Hull in 2001 to take up a Chair in English at the University.

She has since been Head of the English Department, Deputy Dean for Research, Acting Dean of the Faculty (2010-11) and Director of the Graduate School (2012-17).

She retired from the University on 30 September 2023

Radio

- 'Harriet Martineau', In Our Time, with Melvyn Bragg, Karen O'Brien and Ella Dzelzainis, BBC Radio 4, 8 December 2016.

Television

- ‘Disappearing Dad', Time Shift documentary BBC 4 29 June 2010 (expert ‘talking head')

Reviewing and writing articles for Times Higher Education magazine (2011- )

Undergraduate:

Young Worlds: Literature of Childhood

Postgraduate:

Contemporary Children's Literature

Recent outputs

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Book Chapter

'To novels and plays not inclined': Patrick and Maria Brontë and the Arts

Sanders, V. (2024). ‘To novels and plays not inclined’: Patrick and Maria Brontë and the Arts. In A. K. Regis, & D. Wynne (Eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to the Brontës and the Arts (89-101). Edinburgh University Press

'All-sufficient to one another'? Charlotte Yonge and the family chronicle

Sanders, V. (2024). 'All-sufficient to one another'? Charlotte Yonge and the family chronicle. In K. Boardman, & S. Jones (Eds.), Popular Victorian Women Writers (90-110). Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526185617.00010

'What I Can Myself Remember': Charlotte M. Yonge's Life Writing

Sanders, V. (2022). ‘What I Can Myself Remember’: Charlotte M. Yonge’s Life Writing. In C. Walker Gore, C. Schultze, & J. Courtney (Eds.), Charlotte Mary Yonge: Writing the Victorian Age (25-43). Palgrave Macmillan (part of Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10672-9_2

"Mediocrity in the sensations": Charlotte Brontë and the Yorkshire Marriage

Sanders, V. (2020). “Mediocrity in the sensations”: Charlotte Brontë and the Yorkshire Marriage. In J. Pizzo, & E. Houghton (Eds.), Charlotte Bronte, Embodiment and the Natural World (75-94). Palgrave Macmillan (part of Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34855-7_4

Journal Article

Making Space: Key Popular Women Writers Then and Now

Hatter, J., Ifill, H., Bloom, A. B., Costantini, M., Lambert, C., Pope, C., & Sanders, V. (2021). Making Space: Key Popular Women Writers Then and Now. Victorian popular fictions journal, 3(1), 4--32. https://doi.org/10.46911/tfsa1481

Research interests

'Neglected' Victorian women novelists, especially Harriet Martineau (1802-76) and Margaret Oliphant (1828-97); also Charlotte Bronte and Charlotte Mary Yonge

Life Writing: auto/biography

Victorian Family cultures: especially fatherhood and sibling cultures

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