Sally Shuttleworth

Sally Shuttleworth is a Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and served as Head of the Humanities Division (2006–11). She has held academic positions at Princeton, Leeds, and Sheffield Universities, and fellowships at Harvard and Cornell. Her research bridges literature, science, and culture, focusing on the 19th century.

Current projects include:

• Diseases of Modern Life: Nineteenth-Century Perspectives (European Advanced Investigator grant).
• Constructing Scientific Communities: Citizen Science in the 19th and 21st Centuries (AHRC grant), collaborating with Dr. Gowan Dawson (University of Leicester), Dr. Chris Lintott (Oxford Astrophysics), and institutions like the Natural History Museum, the Royal Society, and the Hunterian Museum.

Her work explores the intersection of literature, science, and medicine, including historical analyses of child psychology, evolutionary theory, and citizen science.

Key publications:

• The Mind of the Child: Child Development in Literature, Science and Medicine, 1840–1900 (2010).
• George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Science (1984).
• Charlotte Bronte and Victorian Psychology (1996).