Michelle Geric
مدرس ارشد · Late Eighteenth-Nineteenth Century Literature
University of Westminsterمعرفی
Michelle Geric is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Westminster's School of Humanities, Department of English, Linguistics and Cultural Studies. She serves as Reviews Editor for the Journal of Literature and Science.
- PhD in English (2006), MA in Victorian Studies (2001) from Birkbeck College, University of London
- BA Hons in English Literature & History of Art (2000) from the University of Northampton
Her research explores intersections between literature and science, focusing on geological theory in Romantic and Victorian poetry. Key themes include:
- Dialogic relationships between Tennyson's poetry and Charles Lyell's geology
- Language theory and its disruption of Adamic perceptions
- Nineteenth-century art and visual culture
- Bakhtinian critical frameworks for analyzing poetic structure
Publications include a monograph Tennyson and Geology: Poetry and Poetics (Palgrave, 2017) and peer-reviewed articles on Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, Tennyson's Maud, and methodological parallels between geology and literary analysis. She is a member of the British Society for Literature and Science and the British Association of Victorian Studies.
As Reviews Editor, she curates scholarly debates on literature-science interactions, emphasizing interdisciplinary methodologies and their cultural implications. Her work consistently challenges the 'two cultures' divide through historical and theoretical analyses.
