Staff profile

Dr Claire Knowles

Lecturer

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry

Arts 2.21, Bendigo

 

Qualifications

BA Hons (Melbourne), PhD (Melbourne).

Membership of professional Associations

North American Society for the Study of Romanticism. Keats-Shelley Association of America.

Area of study

English
Creative Arts

Brief Profile

Claire received her PhD from the University of Melbourne, and taught there and at the University of Tasmania before taking up her position at La Trobe University in 2009. She has published numerous articles on female writers in the Romantic era, and her book, Sensibility and Female Poetic Tradition, 1780-1860, was published by Ashgate in 2009.

Research interests

Literary Studies

- Eighteenth and Nineteenth-century women writers

- Gothic Fiction

- Popular culture in the Romantic period

- Popular Fiction

Teaching Units

ENG2/3RJA - Rethinking Jane Austen. ENG2/3RL - Romantic Literature.

Recent Publications

Book

 

Knowles, Claire. Sensibility and Female Poetic Tradition, 1780-1860: The Legacy of Charlotte Smith. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009.

 

Articles

 

Knowles, Claire. Ann Yearsley, Biography and the “Pow’rs of Sensibility Untaught!”, Women’s Writing 17:1 (May 2010): 166-184.

 

Knowles, Claire. “Poetry, Fame and Scandal: The Cases of Byron and Landon.” Literature Compass 4:4 (2007): 1109-1121.

 

Knowles, Claire. “Female Poetic Tradition in the Regency Period: Susan Evance and the Evolution of Sentimentality.” Keats-Shelley Journal 55 (2006): 199-225.

 

Book Chapter

 

Knowles, Claire. “Sensibility Gone Mad: Or, Drusilla, Buffy and the (D)evolution of the Heroine of Sensibility.” Postfeminist Gothic: Critical Interventions in Contemporary Culture. Eds. Benjamin A Brabon and Stéphanie Genz. Houndsmills: Palgrave, 2007. 140-153.

 

Essays in Online Edition

 

Knowles, Claire. “Charlotte Dixon.” Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period. Ed. Stephen Behrendt. Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street Press, 2008. http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/iwrp/

 

Knowles, Claire. “Catherine Luby.” Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period. Ed. Stephen Behrendt. Alexander Street Press, 2008. http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/iwrp/

Research projects

Claire is currently working on two large research projects. The first is a book-length study of Letitia Landon and Romantic celebrity culture and the second is the first extended examination of the history of the Della Cruscans, a much maligned Romantic literary coterie