Dr Anna Fitzer
| Biography | Dr Anna Fitzer's research incorporates interests in eighteenth and nineteenth-century literature and culture. She has worked on representations of sentiment, sensibility, and female libertinism in eighteenth-century fiction and drama, and published extensively on women's writing, early Romantic literary biography and memoir. She is interested in literary relations, with a particular focus on the Sheridans and their circles. She is the editor of Frances Sheridan’s Eugenia and Adelaide (1791), and of Strathallan (1816), the debut novel of Sheridan’s granddaughter, Alicia LeFanu. Her research has received funding from the British Academy. An inter-disciplinary approach to stories of place, and of coastal communities in particular, past and present, is informed by an interest in literature of the sea. Dr Anna Fitzer is Programme Director for BA English and BA English Literature, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. |
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| Research Interests | Literature and culture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; the 'female rake'; women’s writing; biography and memoir; literature of the sea; the representation of coastal communities. |
| Teaching and Learning | Teaching interests range from Restoration plays to the 21st century novel. I am Module Lead for final-year Research Project, and Making Waves: Literature of the Sea. I teach second-year modules, Secrets, Scandals and Rebellions (as Module Lead), and Unruly Subjects: Voices from the Margins, and in first year, lead Reading the World: Intercultural Encounters. I teach Foundation Year Academic Writing Skills and contribute to our MA English programme, including Literature and the Emotions, and Dissertation. |
| Scopus Author ID | 39963309600 |
| PhD Supervision Availability | Yes |
| PhD Topics | Dr Fitzer welcomes proposals from students wishing to undertake doctoral work in writing of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; life writing and memoir; literature of the sea, and coastal communities. Current PhD supervisions include: 'Intermediaries of Virtue and Ruin: Exploring Antagonistic Female Stereotypes in Long-Eighteenth-Century Fiction' 'Moving Stories: Narrating Change Along the Shorelines of Spurn' |