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Dr Claire Brock
BA (Cardiff), MA (Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff), PhD (Warwick)
Lecturer
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T: +44 (0)116 252 2533
Research Interests
Dr Brock’s research interests include women’s writing of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in prose genres other than fiction, the cultural history of fame and publicity in Britain and France, and the place of the female scientist and early woman doctor in the history of science and medicine.
Her publications include two monographs: The Feminization of Fame, 1750-1830 (Palgrave Macmillan) and The Comet Sweeper: Caroline Herschel’s Astronomical Ambition (Icon).
Dr Brock was the recipient of the British Society for the History of Science’s prestigious Singer Prize for young scholars in 2005. Her winning article, ‘The Public Worth of Mary Somerville’, was published in the British Journal for the History of Science in June 2006.
Dr Brock is currently working on a monograph entitled Women Surgeons in Britain, 1860-1918, for which she has recently been awarded a Wellcome Trust Research Leave Award (2012-2014).
Projects
- Gender and the History of Medicine - Women Surgeons, 1860 to 1918
Current Postgraduate Supervision
Dr Brock is currently supervising PhD projects on Olive Schreiner and on male eating disorders in the Victorian period, and would welcome postgraduate students (MA or PhD) with research interests in any of the following:
- Women's writing of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, especially non-creative prose;
- Science and medicine in the nineteenth century;
- European literature, especially French and Russian (from Pushkin to Nabokov);
- Cultural and social history of publicity.
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