Asha Hornsby
  • KY16 9AL

    United Kingdom

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Biography

After gaining her undergraduate degree in English & History and her masters in English Literary Studies at the Universities of Exeter and Durham, Asha completed her PhD at UCL. Following a stint as a visiting research fellow at UCL's Institute of Advanced Studies, she taught at the Universities of Nottingham and St Andrews. She returned to the School of English in 2024 as a British Academy postdoctoral fellow.

Research overview

Dr Hornsby's research scrutinises the interplay between scientific medicine, public health anxieties, and nineteenth-century literary culture. One key research strand concerns animal experimentation, and her monograph Vivisection and Late-Victorian Literary Culture (Cambridge: CUP, 2025) is the first sustained literary-critical study of the topic. She has also published related research in the Victorian Review and the Journal of Victorian Culture.

A second major research strand, supported by the British Academy (2024-26), concerns global seafaring and disease. Her article, published in the Review of English Studies, explores nautical metaphors in late-nineteenth century literary culture, and she is preparing a chapter for an edited collection about Scottish whaling surgeons and the Shetland Isles. Her second monograph Contagious Crossings: how marine medicine made waves in Victorian culture is in progress.

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 14 - Life Below Water

Education/Academic qualification

Fellow, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, The Higher Education Academy

Award Date: 1 Jul 2023

Doctor of Philosophy, The Pen and the Scalpel: Victorian Vivisection, 1875-1912, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

Award Date: 1 Feb 2021

Master of Arts, English Literary Studies, UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM

Award Date: 31 Aug 2014

Bachelor of Arts, University of Exeter

Award Date: 30 Jun 2014

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