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Ana Parejo Vadillo is Reader in Victorian Literature and Culture at Birkbeck, University of London's School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication. Previously holding a lectureship at the University of Exeter and teaching positions at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and the Dickens Universe at UC Santa Cruz, she has established herself as a leading scholar in Victorian literary studies with particular expertise in decadence, cosmopolitanism, and women's writing.
Dr. Vadillo's research focuses on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature with specializations in poetry, metropolitan studies, arts and print media, fashion, and women's writing. Her work explores Pre-Raphaelitism, Aestheticism and Decadence; Cosmopolitanisms; and Victorian modernisms. She has particular expertise on Michael Field, Amy Levy, Christina Rossetti, Walter Pater, Alice Meynell, Oscar Wilde, and Virginia Woolf. Her scholarship demonstrates consistent engagement with transnational literary networks and the intersection of aesthetic movements with political concerns.
Her publications reveal a trajectory from early work on urban aestheticism and women poets to increasingly sophisticated explorations of cosmopolitan dimensions of decadent writing. Recent scholarship shows growing interest in digital humanities approaches to nineteenth-century texts while maintaining deep engagement with poetic form and literary history. Her work consistently bridges traditional literary scholarship with contemporary theoretical concerns.
- Shortlisted for the 2006 ESSE Book Awards for Cultural Studies
- Nominated for Modern Language Association 2011 Prize for Distinguished Scholarly Edition
- AHRC Project Pre-Raphaelites Online (PRO) Co-PI (2019)
- British Academy Small Research Grant recipient (2008)
- Armstrong Library Fellowship
Dr. Vadillo is an experienced PhD supervisor with numerous doctoral completions in areas including British Decadence, Aubrey Beardsley reception, Futurism, and women's writing. She has secured significant funding from AHRC, British Academy, and BAVS for her research projects. As Director of the London Nineteenth-Century Seminar (2009-2017) and Co-Director of the Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies (2014-2018), she has played a key organizational role in Victorian studies. She chairs the Margaret Harkness Prize and is a core member of the Writing 1900 scholarly network.
