Ingrid Hanson

Contact: ingrid.hanson@manchester.ac.uk

My research interests lie in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with a particular emphasis on the intersections of literature and politics in writings on war, peace and social transformation. This includes utopian texts, socialist and anarchist poetry and journalism, war writings of various kinds and anti-war protest literature. My publications – listed below – include a monograph, William Morris and the Uses of Violence, 1856-1890 (Anthem Press, 2013), chapters in edited collections, articles in peer-reviewed journals including English, the Journal of Victorian Culture, and a prize-winning essay in Review of English Studies, as well as a co-edited collection of essays, Poetry, Politics and Pictures: Culture and Identity in Europe, 1840-1914 (Peter Lang, 2013). I have two major current projects: one, which encompasses literary criticism and the history of ideas, is a monograph-in-progress on the concept, practice and representation of peace in its relation to politics, the body, ecology and the afterlife, between 1854 and 1930; the other is a recently completed edition of the works of William Morris for Oxford University Press. I am also working with colleagues on an interdisciplinary project on weeds, and completing work on the polymath Vernon Lee.

I took my first degree at the University of Cambridge in 1990 and worked as a journalist and community English teacher before returning to academia. I was awarded my PhD from the University of Sheffield in 2011 and taught at the Universities of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam and Hull before joining the School of English, American Studies and Creative Writing at the University of Manchester as a lecturer in 2016.

I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and  alongside my research work, I teach a range of courses across periods and levels, with a specialism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, enviromental humanities and eco-criticism, and contemporary responses to or reworkings of nineteenth-century texts.