Dr Éadaoin Agnew
Faculties, deparments and locations
- Kingston School of Art
- Department of Humanities
- School of Creative and Cultural Industries
- Penrhyn Road
Senior lecturer
- Email:
- e.agnew@kingston.ac.uk
About
I am a senior lecturer and the Course Leader for English Literature. I specialise in the Victorian period, and I have a particular interest in the literature of the British Empire.
In both my teaching and my research, I assume a transnational and global approach to the 19th-century, although my research focuses largely on the Indian subcontinent.
My first monograph, 'Imperial Women Writers in Victorian India' was published in 2017. Since then I have produced a scholarly edition of two early 19-century travel texts and I have been working on transnational anti-colonial discourses in fin-de-siècle India. I am also developing a pedagogical project to decolonise the Victorians. I am happy to supervise PhDs in related topics.
Domains
I am currently teaching 19th-century Indian writing in English on the module, Race, Nation and Identity. I also teach Sex and the City: Victorian Metropolis to Modernist Wasteland; Deadly Desires and Dangerous Discourse: Gothic Literature and Theory; and Black and Asian Writing in English.
My research interests are:
- Victorian literature and culture
- global 19th-century literatures
- travel writing
- colonial and postcolonial studies
- ecocritical and new materialist theories
- Victorian India.
Publications
Imperial women writers in Victorian India: representing colonial life, 1850-1910
Agnew, Eadaoin (2017). Cham, Switzerland: (Palgrave Macmillan)
Science and technology in nineteenth-century Ireland
(2011). Dublin, Ireland: (Four Courts Press)
A further shore: essays in Irish and Scottish studies
Agnew, Eadaoin, Hughes, Eamonn, Magennis, Caroline and Morin, Christina (2008). Aberdeen, U.K.: (AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies)
"Physically this universe is one" : universal unity in Swami Vivekananda's 'Raja Yoga'
Agnew, Éadaoin, 2023, Victorian Popular Fictions Journal (5), 2, pp 41-57
When nature "punches back" : a new materialist reading of Alice Perrin's 'East of Suez'
Agnew, Éadaoin, 2022, European Journal of English Studies (26), 1, pp 66-84
Education should be a right for all
Agnew, Eadaoin, Alliez, Eric, Auerbach, Paul, Blackburn, Robert, Botting, Fred, Brady, Mary, Caygill, Howard, Chadwick, Howard, Chanter, Tina, Choat, Simon, Chu, Jonathan, Cinpoes, Radu, Coultas, Valerie, Dines, Martin, Dixon, Paul, Favretto, Ilaria, Finn, Peter, Giaxoglou, Korina, Goldsmith, Carlie, Hallward, Peter, Hawkins, Sue, Haywood, Peter, Higginbottom, Andrew, Ichijo, Atsuko, Isaac, Marina, Jensen, Meg, Kayyali, Reem, Kettyle, Ann, Lambrou, Marina, Latimer, Amanda, Linton, Marisa, Lipsedge, Karen, Malabou, Catherine, O Maoilearca, John, McQuillan, Martin, Micklethwaite, Paul, Morgan Wortham, Simon, O'Brien, Catherine, Osborne, Peter, Pinnock, Winsome, Piper, Jason, Ponto, Maria, Raphael, Sam, Reid, Trish, Roberts, Mike, Rogers, David, Sandford, Stella, Searby, Michael, Siddiki, Jalal Uddin, Smart, Jackie, Spencer, Philip, Stockhammer, Engelbert, Stuart, John, Suess, Eleanor, Swift, Allan, Upstone, Sara, Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, Wells, Julian and Wilson, Scott, 2014, The Guardian
'An Old Vagabond': science and sexuality in Marianne North's representations of India
Agnew, Eadaoin, 2011, Nineteenth Century Gender Studies (7), 2
Transnational encounters in anglophone Indian women’s writing
Agnew, Eadaoin (2024). In: Capancioni, Claudia, (eds.), Constantini, Mariaconcetta, (eds.) and Kuehn, Julia, (eds.), 'Re-examining nineteenth-century Easts : gendered narratives of encounter. Manchester University Press
Refracting the Raj : Hariot Dufferin's photographs of India, 1884-88
Agnew, Eadaoin (2014). In: Saunders, Clare Broome, (ed.), Women, travel writing and truth. Abingdon, U.K.: Routledge, pp 77-90
A city 'on the rise': travel and tourism in nineteenth-century Belfast
Agnew, Eadaoin (2012). In: Purdue, Olwen, (ed.), Belfast : the emerging city, 1850-1914. Dublin, Ireland: Irish Academic Press, pp 135-156
Travel writing
Agnew, Eadaoin (2011). In: Murphy, James H., (ed.), The Oxford history of the Irish book: the Irish book in English, 1800-1891. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press
A microscopic look at Mary Ward: gender, science, and religion in nineteenth-century Ireland
Agnew, Eadaoin (2011). In: Adelman, Juliana, (eds.) and Agnew, Eadaoin, (eds.), Science and technology in nineteenth-century Ireland. Dublin, Ireland: Four Courts Press
Relocating domesticity: letters from India by Lady Hariot Dufferin
Agnew, Eadaoin (2008). In: Kuehn, Julia, (eds.) and Smethurst, Paul, (eds.), Travel writing, form, and empire: the poetics and politics of mobility. Oxford, U.K.: Routledge, pp 95-107