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Emma Clery is Professor of English Literature at Uppsala University, specializing in British Literature of the 18th and 19th Centuries, print culture, women’s writing, and the cultural history of economics. Previously, she held positions at Keele University, Sheffield Hallam University (as Senior Research Fellow with the AHRB-funded Corvey Project), and the University of Southampton (2005-2020) where she developed institutional links with Chawton House Library.
Her research centers on Jane Austen, Mary Wollstonecraft, and literature-economics intersections from 1700-1830. Current projects include a Mary Wollstonecraft study for Oxford University Press and an article on eighteenth-century literature for the Cambridge Companion to Literature and Economics. Her work consistently examines gender, economic thought, and print culture within Romantic and Victorian contexts.
Clery's recent publications reveal sustained engagement with women writers, economic discourse in literature, and textual analysis of canonical authors. Her scholarship bridges historical economic theory with literary form, frequently exploring how financial systems shape narrative structures and gender representation in 18th-19th century British texts.
Her major recognitions include:
- British Academy Rose Crawshay Prize 2018 for Eighteen Hundred and Eleven: Poetry, Protest and Economic Crisis
- Leverhulme Trust Major Fellowship (2013-2016) supporting research on economic crisis in Romantic-era poetry
At Southampton, she supervised undergraduate research through the Corvey Project and developed Chawton House Library collaborations. Her Leverhulme Fellowship produced two seminal books, demonstrating how economic frameworks illuminate literary production during periods of financial instability. She has consistently integrated archival research with theoretical analysis throughout her career.
Clery's institutional contributions include leadership in the AHRB-funded Corvey Project at Sheffield Hallam University, which pioneered undergraduate access to rare Romantic-era women's writing collections, and ongoing curation of scholarly resources at Chawton House Library focused on early women's literary history.
