Dr Katie Mishler
- School: School of English, Drama and Film
- Mentor: Professor Gerardine Meaney
ERC Advanced Grant, VICTEUR: European Migrants in the British Imagination: Victorian and Neo-Victorian Culture
An ERC Advanced Grant, the VICTEUR project combines data analytics and literary criticism to investigate representations of migrants in Victorian fiction. I am currently developing two case studies for the project. The first, an extension of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship at University of Notre Dame, examines the intersection between spatial and spectral planes while probing the historical relationship between Dublin and London as colony and metropole.
I employ the integrated methodologies of close spatial reading, digital mapping technology, and material history to argue that the spatial terrains of Irish gothic writing have been shaped by transnational histories of empire and migration. I am using a dataset of the British Library's nineteenth-century corpus to illustrate how anti-Catholicism contributes to the depiction of Italian migrants as villains in Victorian sensation and gothic fictions.
Building on my expertise as a public humanities specialist, I am also collaborating with Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI) to organise public symposia, an artist interview series, and develop digital exhibitions exploring how migration shapes contemporary literature and culture.
Contact details:
Email: (opens in a new window)katie.mishler@ucd.ie
Digital exhibition curator, Dublin Gothic (opens in a new window)https://exhibitions.moli.ie/dublin-gothic