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Dr. Jane Ford is a Senior Lecturer in English Studies at Teesside University, affiliated with the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Law. She holds a BA from the University of Liverpool, an MA from the University of Chester, and a PhD from the University of Portsmouth. Her research focuses on fin de siècle literature, with a particular emphasis on intersections between economics, gender, and cultural history. She is the author of Metaphors of Economic Exploitation in Literature, 1885-1914 (2024) and co-editor of Economies of Desire at the Victorian Fin-de-Siècle (2016) and Lucas Malet, Dissident Pilgrim (2019). Her work explores economic metaphors in Victorian literature, feminist critiques of eugenics, and the cultural impact of financial discourse. Jane leads the Deliberate Ink project (2025), investigating women’s political participation through creative writing and printmaking.
Her research interests span Victorian Gothic, late-nineteenth-century women’s writing, and the representation of economic systems in literature. Jane actively supervises PhD students in these areas and contributes to public engagement initiatives linking scholarly research with artistic activism.
