Personal Info

E-mail: sally.shuttleworth(at)st-annes.ox.ac.uk

Academic Background:

I was educated at the Universities of York (BA) and Cambridge (PhD) before moving to the United States, to a Frank Knox Fellowship at Harvard University followed by a post as Assistant Professor in the English Department at Princeton University. I subsequently returned to England, teaching at the University of Leeds (intercut by a fellowship at the Society for Humanities, Cornell University) before taking up a Chair at the University of Sheffield in 1994. At Sheffield I served as Head of the School of English, as well as Dean of Arts, and was also Director and founder of the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies.

Teaching Interests:

I supervise graduate students in Victorian literature.

Research Interests:

My research has been largely in the field of Victorian Studies, with a particular emphasis on the inter-relations between literature and science. Books include George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Science and Charlotte Brontë and Victorian Psychology. Together with Professor Geoffrey Cantor of the Division of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds, I directed Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical, a large AHRC-, Leverhulme Trust- and MHRA-funded project which analyses the role of science in the mainstream and popular periodical press of the nineteenth century. Publications from the project include Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media (Ashgate, 2004), Reading the Magazine of Nature: Science and the Nineteenth-Century Periodical (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and Science Serialised (MIT Press, 2004). The SciPer Index, a large electronic database, is published free online at www.sciper.org.
My most recent work is The Mind of the Child: Child Development in Literature, Science and Medicine, 1840-1900. I was awarded a British Academy Readership to support this research.

Selected Publications:

• Sally Shuttleworth, The Mind of the Child: Child Development in Literature, Science and Medicine, 1840-1900 (2010)
• Sally Shuttleworth (ed.), textual edition of George Eliot’s The Lifted Veil and Brother Jacob (2001)
• Sally Shuttleworth (ed.), textual edition of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (2000)
• Sally Shuttleworth (ed.), Memory and Memorials, 1789-1914: Literary and Cultural Perspectives (2000)
• Sally Shuttleworth (ed.), textual edition of Thomas Hardy’s Two on a Tower (1999)
• Sally Shuttleworth (ed.), textual edition of Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South (1998)
• Sally Shuttleworth and Jenny Bourne Taylor (eds.), Embodied Selves: An Anthology of Psychological Texts, 1830-1890 (1998)
• Sally Shuttleworth, Charlotte Brontë and Victorian Psychology (1996)
• Sally Shuttleworth (ed.), Body/Politics: Women and the Discourses of Science (1990)
• Sally Shuttleworth (ed.), Nature Transfigured: Science and Literature 1700-1900 (1989)
• Sally Shuttleworth, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Science (1984)