Dr Dominique Gracia

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Project Manager – ‘Telling Our Stories Better’
dominique.gracia@ell.ox.ac.uk

I manage the Faculty of English's 'Telling Our Stories Better' project, funded by the Oxford Diversity Fund and led by Dr Sophie Ratcliffe and Dr Ushashi Dasgupta. The project aims to broaden our horizons when we think about who studies English and how they use the skills and knowledge from those studies to build diverse and fulfilling careers. The project also forms part of the Faculty's Athena Swan Action Plan, contributing to the objective of improving gender balance in all events and increasing the visibility of all genders within the Faculty, externally and internally.

My research largely focuses on Victorian short stories and poetry. I am particularly interested in:

  • Ekphrasis and the relationships between media; 
  • Women's writing about art and art-objects;
  • The development of detective fiction; and
  • The reuse and recurrence of the Victorian in twenty-first-century popular culture, including TV, film and literature.

Recent and forthcoming publications include:

  • ‘Dante Gabriel Rossetti At the Intersection of Painting and Poetry’, Adaptation Before Cinema, ed. Glenn Jellenik and Lissette Lopez Szwydky-Davis, forthcoming 2022
  • ‘Sherlock’s Legacy: The case of the Extraordinary Sidekick’, The Detective's Companion in Crime Fiction: A Study in Sidekicks, ed. Lucy Andrew and Samuel Saunders, forthcoming August 2021
  • 'Ekphrasis', Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing, forthcoming spring 2021
  • ‘Back to Bodies: Female Detectives and bodily Tools and Tells in Victorian Detective Fiction’, Victorian Popular Fictions, 2.1 (2020), 56-68
  • ‘The one question is not what you mean but what you do: Michael field’s ekphrastic verse’, Victorian Poetry, 57.3 (2019), 345-364
  • ‘Belcaro: An Introduction’, and ‘Vernon Lee: A Biography’, The Literary Encyclopedia, Spring 2019
  • ‘The Case for Kittler’, Word&Image, 35.1 (2019), 89-96
  • ‘Psychopath Aesthetics: the example of the Cannibal’, MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities, 12 (2018), 70-79

 

As well as my work at Oxford, I am the UK Administrative Director of the Collaborative Organization for Virtual Education (COVE), where I am currently working on a retrofit of the Rossetti Archive to enable COVE users to reuse and adapt the wealth of knowledge relating to Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelites that Jerome McGann and the team have collected. I also work on the Kent Maps Online project, working with staff at Canterbury Christ Church University and the team at JSTOR Labs on visual essays and mapping relating to Kent.

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