Trish Bredar

Dr. Trish Bredar serves as an Early Career Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, University of London, specializing in British literature of the long nineteenth century with emphasis on gender representations and social history.

Her educational background features a PhD in English with a graduate minor in Gender Studies from the University of Notre Dame (2021). Her doctoral research centered on representations of walking women in nineteenth-century literature, establishing her methodological approach.

Dr. Bredar's research spans Nineteenth-Century Literature, Victorian Literature, and Gender Studies, with publications in European Romantic Review and Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature. Her current monograph project investigates homelessness representations in Victorian texts, extending her analysis of socioeconomic marginalization. A forthcoming article in Victorian Literature and Culture employs manuscript diaries to reassess women's spatial practices, highlighting her interdisciplinary methodology.