Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies

Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies

The Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies has a long-standing reputation as an internationally recognised< centre of excellence devoted to reconsidering the concept of the Victorian for the contemporary world.

Well-known for its interdisciplinary focus, the work of the Centre queries and ​tests chronological boundaries by reconsidering conceptions of the long nineteenth century, as well as examining representations of the Victorians and reconfigurations of Victorianism in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The interdisciplinary focus has been extended to embrace creative writing, with practice-based researchers reimaging and reinterpreting the Victorian age through poetry.

The Centre tests geographical boundaries by considering what the concept of the Victorian meant on the world stage, including the British Empire. It generates impactful research, bringing insights from rigorous scholarly study to bear on urgent questions of social justice and inclusion, climate change and the environment.

The Centre’s activities include:

• A programme of seminars and workshop events
• Conferences
• Contributions to the Being Human Festival
• PhD supervision opportunities
• Sponsorship of the Journal of Victorian Culture
• An annual lecture by a Visiting Professor: previous appointees have included Professor Peter Mandler (Cambridge), Professor Dinah Birch (Liverpool), Professor Miles Taylor (York), Ann Heilmann (Cardiff) and Pratik Chakrabarti (Houston).

You can more about our research projects and outp​uts through the University's Research database . Also see some highlights from the LCVS blog and more about our Directors and members below.

From the LCVS blog