Sally Bushell

Professor Sally Bushell, affiliated with Lancaster University's Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, specializes in 19th-century Literature (Romantic and Victorian) with interdisciplinary focus on Spatial Humanities and Digital Humanities. She co-directs the Wordsworth Centre and served as Head of Department (2014-2018).

• PhD (Queens' College, Cambridge), BA (London), MA (York), MA (Lancaster)
• Supervises PhD projects on Romanticism, textual criticism, and spatial interpretation
• PI on major projects: Chronotopic Cartographies and Litcraft

Her research redefines literary criticism through spatial and material analysis, exploring cognitive mapping and digital platforms like Minecraft to visualize literary texts. She integrates literature with cartography and geography, emphasizing iterative text-image relationships.

Key publications include Reading and Mapping Fiction: Spatialising the Literary Text (2020) and Romantic Cartographies (2020). She teaches courses such as Victorian Popular Fiction and Place; Space; Text on MA and undergraduate levels.

Scientific awards include the Digital Humanities Institute for Social Futures Fellow (2019/20). She supervises postgraduate research in:

• Draft process analysis of Romantic/Victorian writers
• Literary mapping and geography
• Digital projects on Lake District region

Projects include the £900,000 AHRC-funded Chronotopic Cartographies (2017-2021) and Litcraft. Active in outreach, she organizes training sessions and museum events.