Professor Andrew Mangham
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Professor
- Research Division Lead for English Literature
Areas of interest
My primary research area is the intersection between literature and medicine. I began my research career by looking at the links between Victorian conceptions of female psychopathology, the insanity plea in criminal courts, and sensation fiction. Since then, I've published monographs on Charles Dickens and forensic medicine, the physiology of starvation and the Victorian social problem novel, and monstrosity in the literature, medicine, and natural history of the long nineteenth century. My work has concentrated on the intellectual and methodological elements that literature and medicine have in common. I'm also interested in applied medical humanities, gothicism, realism, ideas of sexuality and health, real crime, and popular fiction. I always welcome new enquiries about PhD supervision.
Teaching
Within the Department of English Literature, I teach modules on literature and healing, Dickens, and Victorian literature.Selected publications
Monographs
- We Are All Monsters: How Deviant Organisms Came to Define Us (MIT Press, 2023)
- The Science of Starving in Victorian Literature, Medicine and Political Economy (OUP, 2020)
- Dickens's Forensic Realism: Truth, Bodies, Evidence (Ohio State UP, 2016)
- Violent Women and Sensation Fiction: Crime, Medicine and Victorian Popular Fiction (Palgrave, 2007)
Edited Collections
- (with Alanna Skuse) Cambridge Elements in Health Humanities (forthcoming)
- (with Clark Lawlor) Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (CUP, 2021)
- (with Clark Lawlor) Literature and Medicine in the Eighteenth Century (CUP, 2021)
- (with Daniel Lea), The Male Body in Medicine and Literature (Liverpool UP, 2016)
- The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction (CUP, 2013)
- (with Greta Depledge), The Female Body in Medicine and Literature (Liverpool UP, 2011)
- Wilkie Collins: Interdisciplinary Essays (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007)