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Dr Kathryn Walchester

Humanities and Social Science

Faculty of Arts Professional and Social Studies

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I am a Reader in English Literature and Subject Leader for English. I have taught at LJMU since 2002, having previously taught at Keele University. My research interests are in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century travel, mountaineering literature, and northern travel. I am currently working on a monograph about ‘travelling gardens’, considering the representation of horticulture and mobility in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century writing about European travels. I am also co-editing a special edition of Studies in Travel Writing on ‘Vertical travel’ and an anthology on microtravel with colleagues Professor Charles Forsdick (University of Liverpool) and Dr. Zoe Kinsley (Liverpool Hope University). In my role as co-Director of the Research Institute of Literature and Cultural History, I am leading a project analysing community engagement with literary and cultural activities across the Liverpool City Region. I have been on the National Executive of University English since 2018 and have acted as external examiner at Nottingham Trent University and University of Chester.

I teach across both the undergraduate and postgraduate English Literature programmes, including ‘Reading English’ at Level 4, ‘English in the Workplace’ at Level 5, and ‘Space and Place; Travel Writing at Home and Abroad’ at Level 6. On the MA English Literature, I teach on the ‘Place’ and ‘Mobilities’ modules, and on ‘Public Culture and Collaborative Practice’. I supervise undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations and am currently on the supervisory teams for three PhD studies: ‘How Does the Space Create the Text?: An Exploration of the Impact of Different Physical and Geographical Spaces on Each Stage of the Writing Process’; ‘Becoming a Domestic Science Teacher: Students at F.L. Calder's School for Teacher Training, 1915-1925’; and a project editing the letters of Susannah Darwin.

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