Angela Wright

Professor Angela Wright is a leading academic in Romantic and Gothic literature at the University of Sheffield's School of English. Her research focuses on the interplay between Gothic and Romantic modes from the 1760s to 1820s, with a particular emphasis on British and French literary traditions.

• Editor of The Mysteries of Udolpho (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
• Co-editor of The Cambridge History of the Gothic (2020) and Romantic Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion (2015)
• Current Leverhulme-funded monograph Fostering Romanticism (2024)

Her research bridges translation studies, literary networks, and gender analysis. Key projects include examining Gothic circulations in Romantic periodicals, editorial work on Ann Radcliffe and Mary Shelley, and exploring intersections of Gothic with nationalism and memory studies.

Recent publications address Gothic spatial theory (‘The house of misery’), Gothic in Romantic poetry, and European cultural exchanges. Her Cambridge History of the Gothic co-edited volumes and 2023 Cambridge History of European Romantic Literature chapter highlight her editorial leadership.

Scientific awards include:

• Shortlisted for the Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize (2015) for Britain, France and the Gothic
• Honorable mention for the prize

She supervises PhD students in Gothic poetry, Romantic fear manifestations, Scandinavian Gothic influences, and narratological studies of Romantic Gothic. Her teaching includes modules on European Gothic and Romantic Gothic, integrating research themes on gender and nationalism.