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Professor Clare Pettitt is a leading academic at the University of Cambridge, affiliated with the interdisciplinary Cambridge Reproduction research initiative. Her work bridges literary studies, cultural history, and media theory, focusing on the 19th century’s evolving concepts of modernity and empire.
- Current research: Finalizing a trilogy on 'seriality' and its impact on Western modernity (2020, 2022, in progress).
- Key collaborations: Co-writing Germinal Matter with Professor Caroline Arscott, exploring intersections of biology and aesthetics in the 1860s.
Her scholarship interrogates the political and technological underpinnings of serial forms in print culture, reproductive science, and imperialist narratives. She has secured a Leverhulme Project Grant for collaborative research on transatlantic copyright frameworks (1884–1914).
- Publications: Four monographs addressing intellectual property, media construction of empire, and the cultural logic of seriality.
- Interdisciplinary focus: Engages with anthropology, art history, evolutionary studies, and reproductive justice.
Professor Pettitt’s work challenges hegemonic narratives around technological progress and racial science, emphasizing their entanglement with literary and artistic practices.
