Dr Claire Brophy
- School: 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 using contemporary critical theories on gender, ethnicity, migratism, and class, as well as Victorian historical, political and cultural data, to develop an intersectional theoretical methodological framework for the project, through which the multiple iterations of migrants lives in the British Library nineteenth century digitised fiction collection can be read. I am also developing an Irish case study, using a politically situated theoretical framework alongside Curatr to perform close readings of texts to elicit, through fiction, perceptions of working class Irish women migrants between 1848-1899, in particular domestic servants and maids working in England.
Contact details:
Email: (opens in a new window)claire.brophy@ucd.ie
Project website: (opens in a new window)https://projectvicteur.com