Elspeth (Elsie) Askew

Supervisor: Professor Fiona Stafford

Research Interests: 18th-19th centuries; the periodical form; British and American Romanticism; verbal and visual culture; animal poetry; geology in literature; absence and loss

Doctoral Research: 'The End of the World in the New World: Apocalyptic Periodical Literature as a Critique of the Early American Republic'

Teaching: FHS Paper 6: Special Options (Word and Image) in Michaelmas 2024; FHS Paper 5: Literature in English, 1760-1830 in Trinity 2025; Jane Austen: Literature and Legacy at Lady Margaret Hall's Summer School in Long Vac 2025

Conference Papers: ''The cold world shall not know': Silence and Sympathy in Shelley’s 'Julian and Maddalo'', The Shelley Conference, July 2024; 'Beyond the Last Man: Shelley's Response to Buffon's 'sublime but gloomy theory'', Oxford's Romantic Research Seminar, May 2025