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Professor Catherine Maxwell is a leading scholar of Victorian Literature at Queen Mary University of London, specializing in Aestheticism, Decadence, and sensory culture. She holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford and joined Queen Mary in 1993. Her groundbreaking work Scents and Sensibility: Perfume in Victorian Literary Culture (Oxford UP, 2017) won the 2018 ESSE award. She co-edits the MHRA Jewelled Tortoise series and is writing a new monograph on Victorian floral poetry. Active in teaching, she convenes courses on Victorian Fictions, Gender and Imagination in Poetry, and Aestheticism. Her research spans Swinburne, Vernon Lee, and the intersection of scent with literary imagination. She has supervised over ten successful PhD students and engages in public lectures on Victorian sensory culture.
- Education: MA and DPhil (Oxford), postdoctoral British Academy Fellowship at St Hugh’s College
- Research Focus: Victorian sensory studies, Aestheticism, floral symbolism, perfume’s literary role
- Awards: ESSE 2018, Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship (2014–2016)
- Public Engagement: Lectures at V&A, Aeon essays, collaborations with artists (e.g., Swinburne’s Pasiphae adaptation)
