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Dr. Britta Martens is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol), affiliated with the Faculty of Arts, Creative Industries, and Education and the School of Arts. She has been teaching at UWE since 2002 with a brief 4-year break in her tenure.
Her academic credentials include an MA from Hamburg, a PhD from University College London (UCL), and a PGCert from UWE Bristol. These qualifications have supported her distinguished career focusing on Victorian literature and culture.
Dr. Martens specializes in Victorian poetry, particularly the works of Robert Browning, with significant expertise in Victorian writing within European contexts, caricature, and the relationship between literature and crime. Her research examines how Victorian authors engaged with non-literary culture from France and Italy to define their own cultural identity. She is especially interested in the dramatic monologue form and its representation of crime, connecting it to genres like detective fiction and execution ballads.
Her scholarly output includes the influential books Browning, Victorian Poetics and the Romantic Legacy: Challenging the Personal Voice (2011/2016) and The Poetry of Robert Browning (2016), along with a co-edited special issue of Victorian Poetry (Winter 2012). She is currently working on a critical edition of Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau and Fifine at the Fair for the Poetical Works of Robert Browning published by Oxford University Press.
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Editorial advisory board member: Victorians Institute Journal
- Editorial advisory board member: Victorian Poetry
- Editorial advisory board member: Victorian Review
Her research has been supported by substantial grants from the Arts and Humanities Research Board, the British Academy, the German Academic Exchange Service, the Armstrong Browning Library, the British Association of Victorian Studies, and the Modern Humanities Research Association. These funding sources have enabled her to pursue extensive archival research and international scholarly collaboration.
