Ingrid Hanson

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My research interests lie in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with a particular emphasis on the intersections of literature and radical politics in writings on war, peace and social/political/ecological connections and transformations. 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, Modernism/modernity, 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 collaborative, interdisciplinary research project, funded by the University of Manchester, entitled Moss Worlds, examining the politics, histories and aesthetics of urban mosses.