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Professor Juliette Atkinson is a distinguished scholar in the Department of English Language and Literature at University College London, specializing in Victorian literature, life-writing, and transnational networks. Her career at UCL progressed from British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow (2009-2012) to Lecturer (2012), Associate Professor (2018), and Professor (2023). She combines book history and close reading to analyze cross-cultural literary exchanges.
- Education:
- B.A. Hons, University College London
- M.St, University of Oxford
- Ph.D., University College London (2008)
Research Interests: Focused on Victorian fiction, her work interrogates how French literature influenced British writers and critics. She edits foundational texts like Jane Eyre and The Mill on the Floss for Oxford World's Classics, while her award-winning scholarship explores underrepresented biographical subjects and transnational intellectual networks.
Publications: Spanning monographs like Victorian Biography Reconsidered (2010) and French Novels and the Victorians (2017), her recent output includes the Oxford Handbook of George Eliot (2025) and volume 5 of the Oxford History of Life-Writing (2025). Her research bridges textual analysis with historical reception studies.
Awards:
- New Scholars Award (Bibliographical Society of America, 2012)
- British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (2009-2012)
- UCL Graduate School Research Scholarship (2004)
- Leverhulme Trust Fellowship (2025)
