Carol Stewart

Carol Stewart serves as an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia's School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing and is an active member of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Research Group.

Her academic credentials include:

• PhD from Trinity College Dublin (2004) examining 'The Eighteenth-Century Novel and the Secularization of Ethics'
• MPhil from Queen's University Belfast (1994) on 'The Problem of Suffering in Henry Fielding's Novels'
• Bachelor of Education from Queen's University Belfast (1983)

Stewart specializes in eighteenth and nineteenth-century English literature with particular expertise in women writers including Eliza Haywood and Penelope Aubin. Her scholarship investigates foundling narratives, secular ethics in fiction, and novelistic form during the long eighteenth century. Through critical editions and analytical articles, she illuminates the socio-cultural contexts of early women novelists and their ethical frameworks.

Recent publications reveal sustained focus on textual recovery and thematic analysis of marginalized voices, demonstrating how foundling motifs intersect with colonial discourse and moral philosophy in pre-Victorian fiction. Her editorial work revitalizes neglected female-authored texts for contemporary scholarship.

Within UEA's research ecosystem, Stewart contributes to the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Research Group, fostering collaborative exploration of period literature through seminars and publications.