Faculty Member, English
Keele University, Research Institute for the Humanities
Liverpool John Moores University, English
The Open University, Faculty of Arts
Visiting Lecturer in English Literature
About
I completed my PhD at Keele University in 2009/10. My thesis was entitled: '"This loose, drifting material of life": experiments in nineteenth and twentieth-century life writing'. This work explored the strategic blending of life writing and fictional/poetic genres in response to 'difficult' subjects, with particular reference to gender and sexuality. I am currently revising this work for publication: a book-length study of Victorian experiments in life writing.
My current research explores the representation of lives in popular culture. I am interested in the rhetoric and strategies used to construct lives across different media. Avenues to explore include: life narratives in the popular and periodical press; photographed lives; early film; biopics and documentaries; and the adaptation of life narratives.
I have published work on John Addington Symonds, Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf. I am a regular contributor to Routledge ABES ('Nineteenth Century' and 'Modernism' sections) and have contributed reviews to the Times Literary Supplement, Journal of Victorian Culture, Victorian Review, The British Society for Literature and Science, The British Association for Victorian Studies, and the Virginia Woolf Bulletin.
I am a Visiting Lecturer at the universities of Chester and Liverpool John Moores, and an Associate Lecturer at the Open University. I have previously taught at the universities of Keele and Salford. In 2010 I was awarded two teaching qualifications: a PG Cert in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, and a PG Cert in Teaching and Learning with Technology.
You can follow me on Twitter (@AmberRegis) and on my research blog: http://amberregis.blogspot.com
