Research output per year
Research output per year
KY16 9AL
United Kingdom
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.
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.
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):
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
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
Hornsby, A. (PI)
1/01/24 → 31/12/26
Project: Standard