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Professor Jennie Batchelor serves as Head and Professor of English in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York, having joined in 2023 after nearly twenty years at the University of Kent where she co-directed the Centre for Studies in the Long Eighteenth Century. She previously held the inaugural Postdoctoral Fellowship in Women’s Writing (1660-1830) at Chawton House Library and the University of Southampton.
Her research spans eighteenth-century and Romantic studies with particular focus on literary and material culture intersections, periodicals studies, women's writing, fashion history, and craft practices. Notable projects include the Leverhulme Trust-funded 'The Lady's Magazine (1770-1818)' digital initiative and co-creation of the practice-based research project Jane Austen Embroidery. Her recent publications demonstrate sustained engagement with media history, textual recovery, and public-facing scholarship.
Her scholarly output reveals strong patterns in digital humanities approaches to periodical recovery, feminist reappraisals of women's labor, and innovative cross-disciplinary methodologies connecting literary analysis with material culture studies. Awarded the 2023 Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize for The Lady’s Magazine, her work consistently bridges academic and public spheres through BBC appearances, literary festival engagements, and craft-based workshops.
- Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize (2023)
- British Academy grants
- Pasold Research Fund support
Batchelor maintains active public engagement through international keynotes, podcast appearances (New Statesman, The Thing about Austen), and media contributions to Who Do You Think You Are Magazine. Her 'Great Lady’s Magazine Stitch Off' project engaged global participants in reconstructing historical embroidery patterns, demonstrating commitment to collaborative knowledge production. Current research includes a Cambridge University Press book on craft and authorship and the 'Patterns of Perfection' database cataloging 650+ needlework designs.
