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Cath Sharrock is an Associate Professor in Literature at the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing, University of East Anglia (UEA). She is a member of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Research Group, where she contributes to interdisciplinary scholarship on historical literature and culture. Her academic work bridges literature, cultural history, and medical humanities, focusing on the intersections of gender, medicine, and emotion in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Her research interests center on 18th and 19th-century literature, particularly the cultural history of the nerves, sensibility, sympathy, and the medicalization of gender and sexuality. She explores how literary texts reflect and shape historical understandings of the body, emotion, and identity. Her work critically engages with the French Revolution controversy in England and long-term developments in theories of gender and sexuality from the late 17th to the 21st century.
The trends in her scholarly publications demonstrate a sustained engagement with feminist theory, literary canon formation, and the interdisciplinary study of literature and science. Her work spans topics such as hysteria, hermaphroditism, sensibility, and sympathy, often using close textual analysis to interrogate historical medical and philosophical discourses. She frequently publishes on women poets and the cultural conditions of female authorship.
Her scientific contributions are reflected in her editorial and authorial work, though no specific awards or fellowships are mentioned in the text.
She advises graduate students in literature and related fields, though specific names are not listed. Her academic leadership includes participation in research groups and interdisciplinary collaborations. She has not been associated with named grants in the provided text.
She is affiliated with the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Research Group, which fosters collaborative projects, workshops, and publications on historical literary and cultural studies.
