Dr Victoria Russell
- Title
- Honorary Research Fellow
- Location
- Contact me
- Via email
- Phone
- 07968369497
- v.russell@keele.ac.uk
Biography
Victoria Russell is a cultural historian of ideas. She completed her PhD in modern history at Birkbeck, University of London in 2019, before joining the History Department at Keele in 2021 on a three-year Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship. She is currently an Honorary Research Fellow at Keele.
Research and scholarship
A cultural historian of ideas, using gender and science as categories of analysis, Victoria's research focuses on ideas of sexual equality and the non-binary in radical discourse in Britain between the late eighteenth and the mid-nineteenth centuries. She is particularly interested in how the evolutionary and biomedical sciences informed ultra-radical understanding of human development and their demands for egalitarian socio-political reform. Her recent Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship focused on the prevalence of evolutionary science in the periodicals and newspapers of the radical freethought and socialist movements between 1820 and 1850. She is currently working on a collaborative project proposal that aims to look at the role between visual and textual satire and lay perceptions of human breeding and reproduction in the first half of the nineteenth century.
Teaching
Victoria has taught on undergraduate history and PPH modules at Birkbeck and on the undergraduate Sources and Debates in History module at Keele. She has also lectured on Chartism and radical politics.
Publications
Collaborations and grants awards
Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship 2021-2024
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