Angelique Richardson holds degrees from
London (MA, PhD) and Oxford (BA) Universities. Her work is interdisciplinary
(English, history, and history of science) and she has published widely on
nineteenth-century science, literature and culture. She welcomes PhD students
in these areas and in the last five years she has supervised to completion
eight PhD students, nearly all of whom are now working in higher education. She
is especially interested in the exchange of ideas between science and culture,
from Malthus and Darwin to the present, and in ideas, contemporary and
Victorian, about the relations between nature and culture. Her earlier work
confronted biologistic thinking and the search to explain the social in
biological terms; she is now working on nature and nurture after Darwin and
considering ways in which biology, separated from repressive social and
political agendas, can offer a basis for and a way to social co-operation and
mutuality. As part of this new project
she is organizing a Wellcome Trust-sponsored symposium on Darwin, Medicine and
the Humanities, September 2009.
Forthcoming invited papers on this research include a position paper on
new trends in Darwin Studies at the Cambridge Darwin festival in July 2009, a
keynote paper at the Darwin our
Contemporary conference in Siegen in November 2009, and papers at the
Cambridge Nineteenth Century Seminar and the Institute of English Studies Modernism
Seminar in 2010.
Richardson
is involved with various national and international projects within Hardy
Studies. She sits on the Editorial Board
of the Hardy Review and is a member
of the Thomas Hardy Society (UK) and the
Thomas Hardy Association (USA). A
founding organiser of the first International Postgraduate Symposium on Hardy
at the International Thomas Hardy Conference, she is now co-organizing the
third symposium, July 2010, and she is co-organizing a three day Hardy at Yale conference
(June 2011).
Richardson is a member of Exeter's
Centre for Victorian Studies, the Centre for Medical History, on
whose Advisory Committee she sits, and the Centre for Southwest Writing; she is
also a Research Associate of The ESRC Centre for
Genomics in Society (Egenis). She is a member of the Executive Committee of
the Council for College and University English (CCUE), a member of the Institute of English
Studies, the British Association of Victorian Studies, and the UCSC Dickens Project.
Richardson's Love and Eugenics in
the late Nineteenth Century: Rational Reproduction and the New Woman (Oxford University Press, 2003; paperback 2008), reveals the
development of biologistic thinking and the shaping influence of eugenics in Victorian
Britain (please see Angelique's CV for reviews). She co-edited,
with Dr Carolyn Burdett, a special issue
of New Formations, Eugenics
Old and New (2007), which
examines a shift from the state eugenics of the first half of the twentieth century
to human biotechnology - the eugenics of wealthy private consumers.
Richardson is the editor of a
collection of American and British short stories, Women Who Did: Stories by Men and Women 1890-1914
(Penguin Classics, 2005), co-editor, with Dr Chris
Willis, of The New Woman in Fiction and in Fact: Fin de Siècle Feminisms
(Palgrave, 2001) (please see Angelique's CV for reviews), and co-editor, with Professor Regenia Gagnier, of Victorian
Boundaries, a special issue of the Journal of Victorian Literature and
Culture (2004). Richardson is on the Editorial Board of Nineteen. She writes regularly for the TLS,
reviews, and reads manuscripts, for the leading international journals in
nineteenth-century studies, including Victorian Studies.. She has given invited papers at
over 30 international and national conferences and seminars.
