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Dr. Katherine Ebury is a Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature at the School of English, University of Sheffield, where she has been based since 2012. She is an internationally recognized literary historian and scholar of modernism, with a focus on law and literature, critical theory, animal studies, and literature and science. Her research has been supported by prestigious fellowships, including an AHRC Leadership Fellowship.
Ebury's primary research area is literary history, employing historicist and archival methods to explore neglected contexts for late Victorian, Edwardian, and Modernist literature. She is a sought-after research leader in modernism, law and literature, critical theory, animal studies, and literature and science. Her work often intersects with psychoanalysis and the death penalty, as evidenced by her monograph 'Modern Literature and the Death Penalty, 1890-1950'. Public engagement projects have involved human rights charities and film festivals.
Her recent publications (2018-2024) demonstrate a strong focus on the intersections of literature with law, nonhuman studies, and energy humanities. Key themes include the death penalty in modernist literature, nonhuman ecologies in Joyce's works, and the role of science and the occult in Irish drama. Collaborative projects, such as edited collections on intertextuality and ethical crossroads, highlight her leadership in the field.
Scientific Awards and Honors:
- AHRC Leadership Fellowship (2018-2020) for 'Literature, Psychoanalysis and the Death Penalty, 1900-1950'
- Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA)
- Judge at the Global Undergraduate Awards
Dr. Ebury has supervised numerous BA, MA, and PhD students on diverse topics including modernism, psychoanalysis, gender studies, and representations of violence. Her PhD students have explored travel writing, gender and phenomenology, sexuality studies, WWI theatre, and chaos theory. She has secured significant research funding, notably the AHRC Leadership Fellowship, and has mentored postdoctoral researchers funded by the AHRC and Leverhulme Trust.
