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Professor Andrew Mangham is a faculty member in the Department of English Literature at the University of Reading, part of the School of Humanities. He serves as the Research Division Lead for English Literature. His work focuses on the intersection of literature and medicine, particularly in Victorian contexts, exploring topics such as forensic medicine, monstrosity, and sensation fiction.
Key research areas include Victorian conceptions of psychopathology, the physiology of starvation in social problem novels, and the shared methodologies of literature and medicine. He also engages with applied medical humanities, gothicism, and realist traditions. Mangham teaches modules on literature and healing, Dickens, and Victorian literature.
His publications include monographs like We Are All Monsters (2023) and The Science of Starving (2020), as well as edited collections such as Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (2021). His scholarship bridges literary analysis with medical history, examining themes like body politics, cultural symbolism, and interdisciplinary research.
Mangham’s recent articles address topics ranging from Dickens’s narrative techniques to the representation of epilepsy in sensation fiction. His work often highlights how Victorian literature engaged with contemporary medical debates and societal anxieties.
