Dr Ana Parejo Vadillo
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Overview
Overview
Biography
Dr Vadillo came to Birkbeck after holding a lectureship at the University of Exeter, where she worked with colleagues at the Centre for Victorian Studies and at the Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Sexuality and Gender in Europe. She has also taught at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (London Semester) and has led graduate seminars at the Dickens Universe, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Highlights
o Michael Field: Decadent Moderns. Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2019.
o Michael Field, The Poet, Published and Unpublished Materials. Ontario: Broadview Press, 2009. Nominated by Broadview for Modern Language Association 2011 Prize for a Distinguished Scholarly Edition. Co-written and co-edited with Marion Thain.
o Victorian Literature. A Sourcebook. Lead editor with John Plunkett. Eds. John Plunkett, Ana Parejo Vadillo, Regenia Gagnier, Angelique Richardson, Rick Rylance and Paul Young. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2011.
o Women Poets and Urban Aestheticism: Passengers of Modernity. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2005. Shortlisted for the 2006 ESSE Book Awards for Cultural Studies.
o [Digital Book] Works and Days: The Diary of Michael Field (Volume 1, 1888-9). Scholarly Edition. Victorian Life and Letters. In press. 273pp.'Christina Rossetti and Communities', talk for the British Academy 23/10/19.
Interviewed by Holly Williams for BBC Culture on women and pseudonyms
Professional activities
Member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council Peer Review College
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Professional memberships
Member of the MLA
Member of NAVSA (North American Victorian Studies Association)
Member of BAVS (British Association for Victorian Studies)
Member of BADS (British Association for Decadent Studies)
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Research
Research
Research interests
- Cosmopolitanisms
- Decadence
- Poetry
- Literature and the Arts, PreRaphelitism to Modernism.
- Women's Writing
- MIchael Field, Amy Levy, Christina Rossetti, Walter Pater, Alice Meynell, Oscar Wilde etc
Research overview
Dr Vadillo is Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, and a Member of the AHRC Peer Review College. She is regularly invited to lecture at academic and public institutions. Recent talks include at the Richmond Literary Festival, the London Transport Museum, Oxford University, the Centre for British Studies (Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin), Université Paul-Valéry, and The British Academy, among other institutions. She was the Director of the London Nineteenth-Century Seminar(2009-2017) and the Co-Director for the Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies (2014-2018). She is a core member of Writing 1900, a scholarly European network that studies the literary culture of this period. She chairs the Margaret Harkness Prize.
Dr Vadillo’s research focuses on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature. She specialises on poetry; metropolitan and the cosmopolitan studies; arts and print media; fashion; and women’s writing. Particular strengths are Pre-Raphaelitism, Aestheticism and Decadence; Cosmopolitanisms; and Victorian modernisms.
She has been the recipient of a number of grants (AHRC, British Academy, BAVS) and fellowships (Armstrong Library). In 2019, she was Co-PI of the AHRC Project Pre-Raphaelites Online (PRO). The project brought together UK and US art galleries and museums with significant Pre-Raphaelite collections (the Delaware Art Museum, the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, the Yale Center for British Art, and the Watts Gallery); world-leading literary and art-historical scholars with expertise on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; and the nineteenth-century centres associated with the COVE collective both in the UK and the US. Examples of Outcomes of this research were her 2019 NAVSA talk ‘Fair Beginnings: Michael Field and Pre-Raphaelitism’ and ‘Christina Rossetti and Communities,’ given at the British Academy also in 2019: you can listen here to the talk.
She is an expert on a number of women poets (A. Mary F. Robinson, Amy Levy), and particularly Michael Field. She has authored a number of books on this poet. Her most recent work on this collaborative duo is Michael Field: Decadent Moderns,(2019), which includes an essay on sculpture and Michael Field. From 2009 is the scholarly edition of Michael Field, The Poet: Published and Manuscript Materials. In 2014, she curated the first ever book exhibition of Michael Field at the Senate House Library. She has finished editing the first volume of Michael Field’s diary, Works and Days: The Diary of Michael Field (Volume 1, 1888-9) for the Victorian Life and Letters. She received in 2008 a British Academy Small Research Grant to work on the edition of this diary.
She publishes on decadent and modernist writing. Authors she works on include T. S. Eliot, Amy Levy, Vernon Lee, Alice Meynell, Walter Pater, Charles Ricketts, A. Mary F. Robinson, Christina Rossetti, A.C. Swinburne, Oscar Wilde, and Virginia Woolf. In 2006, she co-edited a Special Editors’ Topic Issue on Fin-de-Siècle Literary Culture and Women Poets for the journal Victorian Literature and Culture. Her monograph on Aestheticism, London and women poets, Women's Poetry and Urban Aestheticism: Passengers of Modernity (Palgrave 2005), was shortlisted for the 2006 ESSE Book Awards on cultural studies.
Dr Vadillo is an advocate of Open Access. She worked in 2015 with Luisa Calè in the experimental The Nineteenth-Century Digital Archive. A Special Issue of 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century. She has also co-edited another issue of 19 on Science, Literature and the Darwin Year (2010) with Carolyn Burdett and Paul White. She sits at the Board of Journals such as 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century and ES Review, Spanish Journal of English Studies. She is part of Open Access projects such as COVE and the VLLC Diaries of Michael field (Editorial Board).Research Centres and Institutes
- Co-Director 2014-18, Centre For Nineteenth Century Studies
- Director, 2009-2015, London Nineteenth-Century Seminar
Research clusters and groups
- Member, Writing 1900
- Member, COVE
Research projects
Decadent Cosmopolitanism
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Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Supervision
Dr Vadillo is an experienced supervisor having worked with doctoral students on a number of projects ranging from nineteenth to twentieth century literature, culture and politics. She is particularly interested in applicants working on her research specialisms: Aestheticism and Decadence, Language and Decadent Styles, Poetry, Victorian Modernisms, Art and Literature, Cosmopolitanisms, and Gender and Genre. She specialises also in women’s writing and would also welcome PhDs in this area of work too. If you are considering applying for MPhil/PhD research in any of these areas, please get in touch with Dr Vadillo or the Admission Tutor about your research plan before making an application.
Current PhD students:
o Saskia Barnard, Modernism’s Fashion Writers. Funded by CHASE Doctoral Training Partnership.
o Kayleigh Betterton, Deconstructing and Disassembling Book Collections in the Fin de Siècle.
o Jemma Stewart, Seeing in Flowers: Eco-Feminism and the Victorian Gothic. Funded by CHASE PhD students:Recent PhD students:
o Leire Barrera-Medrano, Spain and British Decadence, 1880-1920: Aesthetics of Extremes (Completed 2018). Lectureship post at University of Bath.
o Sasha Dovzhyk, The Afterlives of Aubrey Beardsley in Russia (1899-1929). Funded by the Birkbeck School of Arts Anniversary Scholarship. (Completed 2018) ISSF Postdoctoral Fellow.
o Robyn Jakeman, Italian Futurism and the Development of British Futurism (Completed 2019)
o Flore Janssen, ‘ “Blackleg” Work in Literature’: Women Writers, World Problems, and the Working Poor, c. 1880-1920. Janssen’s 2018 book Margaret Harkness: Writing Social Engagement 1880-1921, published by Manchester University Press, was part of her PhD. (Completed 2018). ISSF Postdoctoral Fellow.
o Alan McNee, ‘The ‘New Mountaineer’, 1870-1900’, co-supervised with Luisa Calè. Thesis published as a monograph under the title The New Mountaineer in Late Victorian Britain Materiality, Modernity, and the Haptic Sublime
Doctoral alumni since 2013-14
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OLEXANDRA DOVZHYK
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ROBYN JAKEMAN
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FLORE JANSSEN
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LEIRE BARRERA MEDRANO
Teaching
Teaching modules
- Dissertation (Literature and Culture 1800-present) (AREN145D7)
- Reading for Writing, Writing for Reading (AREN285S4)
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Publications
Publications
Article
- Parejo Vadillo, Ana (2023) Michael Field, Pre-Raphaelite poet: one play and two fair beginnings. 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century 34, ISSN 1755-1560.
- Parejo Vadillo, Ana (2021) Symbolism at war: Charles Ricketts and the politics of the stage. Journal of European Studies 51 (3-4), pp. 318-336. ISSN 0047-2441.
- Parejo-Vadillo, Ana (2021) Decadent women poets: translingual thresholds. Feminist Modernist Studies 4 (2), pp. 146-165. ISSN 2469-2921.
- Parejo Vadillo, Ana (2017) Cosmopolitan disturbances: Amy Levy in Dresden. Forum for Modern Language Studies 53 (3), pp. 325-337. ISSN 0015-8518.
- Parejo Vadillo, Ana (2016) The crownless A. Mary F. Robinson. Studies in Walter Pater and Aestheticism 2016 (2), ISSN 2445-5962.
- Calè, Luisa and Parejo Vadillo, Ana (2015) In the cloud: Nineteenth-Century visions and experiments for the digital age. 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century 21, ISSN 1755-1560.
- Parejo Vadillo, Ana and Gallagher, Robert (2015) Animating sight and song: a meditation on identity, fair use, and collaboration. 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century 2015 (21), ISSN 1755-1560.
- Parejo Vadillo, Ana (2015) ‘The hot-house of decadent chronicle’: Michael Field and the dance of modern verse-drama. Women: A Cultural Review 26 (3), pp. 195-220. ISSN 0957-4042.
- Parejo Vadillo, Ana (2014) Walter Pater and Michael Field: the correspondence, with other unpublished manuscript materials. The Pater Newsletter 65, pp. 27-85. ISSN 0264-8342.
- Parejo Vadillo, Ana (2013) Cosmopolitan Aestheticism: the affective 'Italian' ethics of A. Mary F. Robinson. Comparative Critical Studies 2013 (10), pp. 163-182. ISSN 1744-1854.
- Parejo Vadillo, Ana (2013) Cosmopolitan aestheticism: the affective ‘Italian’ ethics of A. Mary F. Robinson. Comparative Critical Studies 10 (2), pp. 163-182. ISSN 1744-1854.
- Parejo Vadillo, Ana Hughes, L.K., ed. (2003) A note upon the "liquid crystal screen" and Victorian poetry. Victorian Poetry 41 (4), pp. 531-536. ISSN 0042-5206.
- Parejo Vadillo, Ana (2000) Sight and song: transparent translations and a manifesto for the observer. Victorian Poetry 38 (1), pp. 15-34. ISSN 0042-5206.
- Parejo Vadillo, Ana (1999) New woman poets and the culture of the salon at the fin de siècle. Women: A Cultural Review 10 (1), pp. 22-34. ISSN 0957-4042.
Book
- Parejo Vadillo, Ana Parker, S. and Parejo Vadillo, Ana, eds. (2019) Michael Field: Decadent Moderns: 1875-1914. Series in Victorian Studies. Ohio, U.S.: Ohio University Press. ISBN 9780821424018. (In Press)
- Parejo Vadillo, Ana and Plunkett, J. and Gagnier, R. and Richardson, A. and Rylance, R. and Young, P., eds. (2011) Victorian literature: a sourcebook. Palgrave Sourcebooks. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230551756.
- Thain, M. and Parejo Vadillo, Ana, eds. (2009) Michael Field: the poet - published and manuscript materials. Broadview Editions. Peterborough, UK: Broadview Press. ISBN 9781551116754.
- Parejo Vadillo, Ana (2005) Women poets and urban aestheticism: passengers of modernity. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230287969.
Book Section
- Parejo Vadillo, Ana (2019) Poets of style: cultivating artifice in poetries of asceticism and excess. In: Hughes, L.K. (ed.) Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Poetry. Cambridge Companions to Literature. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781316856543.
- Parejo Vadillo, Ana (2015) ‘Generational Difference in To the Lighthouse’. In: Pease, A. (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to To the Lighthouse. Cambridge Companions to Literature. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 122-135. ISBN 9781107682313.
- Parejo Vadillo, Ana (2013) Another renaissance: the decadent poetic drama of A.C. Swinburne and Michael Field. In: Hall, J.D. and Murray, A. (eds.) Decadent Poetics: Literature and Form at the British Fin de Siècle. Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 116-140. ISBN 9781137348289.
- Thain, M. and Parejo Vadillo, Ana (2012) Editing Michael Field: taking Fin-de-Siécle women’s poetry to a broader audience. In: Gavin, A.E. and de la L. Oulton, C.W. (eds.) Writing Women of the Fin de Siècle: Authors of Change. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 70-82. ISBN 9781349344673.
- Parejo Vadillo, Ana (2007) Aestheticism 'at home' in London: A. Mary F. Robinson and the aesthetic sect. In: Barber, S. and Cunningham, G. (eds.) London Eyes: Reflections of London in Text and Images. Oxford, UK: Berghahn Books. pp. 59-78. ISBN 9781845454074.
- Parejo Vadillo, Ana (2007) Outmoded dramas: history and modernity in Michael Field's aesthetic plays. In: Stetz, M.D. and Wilson, C.A. (eds.) Michael Field and Their World. London, UK: Rivendale Press. pp. 237-249. ISBN 9781904201083.
- Parejo Vadillo, Ana and Plunkett, J. (2007) Railway passenger and the training of the eye. In: Beaumont, M. and Freeman, M. (eds.) The Railway and Modernity: Time, Space, and the Machine Ensemble. Oxford, UK: Peter Lang. pp. 45-69. ISBN 9783039110247.
- Parejo Vadillo, Ana (2005) Immaterial poetics: A. Mary F. Robinson and the Fin-de-Siècle poem. In: Bristow, J. (ed.) The Fin-de-Siècle Poem. Ohio, UK: Ohio University Press. pp. 231-260. ISBN 9780821416280.
- Parejo Vadillo, Ana (2002) Phenomena in flux: the aesthetics and politics of travelling in modernity. In: Ardis, A. and Lewis, L. (eds.) Women's Experience of Modernity, 1875-1945. Baltimore, Maryland, USA: John Hopkins University Press. ISBN 9780801869358.
- Parejo Vadillo, Ana (2002) Poetics on the line: the effect of mass-transport in urban culture. In: Thomas, R. and Michie, H. (eds.) Nineteenth-Century Geographies The Transformation of Space from the Victorian Age to the American Century. New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA: Rutgers University Press. pp. 237-250. ISBN 9780813531441.
Editorial
- Burdett, Carolyn and Parejo Vadillo, Ana and White, P. (2010) Science, literature and the Darwin legacy. 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century 11, Birkbeck University. ISSN 1755-1560.
- Thain, M. and Parejo Vadillo, Ana (2006) Fin-de-siecle renaissance: diversity, history, modernity. Victorian Literature and Culture 34 (2), pp. 389-403. Cambridge University Press. ISSN 1060-1503.
Other
- Calè, Luisa and Parejo Vadillo, Ana Cale, Luisa and Parejo Vadillo, Ana, eds. (2015) The Nineteenth-Century Digital Archive. 2015 (21), London, UK: The Open Library of Humanities.
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Business and community
Business and community
Outreach
Some media:
Interviewed by Holly Williams (2020) for the BBC on women and the use of pseudonyms.
Interviewed by Alexis Ong (28 May 2020) for a review article of the game ‘Dishonoured’
Books Showoff, ‘My Own Field’ at Waterstones, 28 September 2016.
BBC Poetry Season “Cristina Rossetti in London”