Dr Claire Knowles

Lecturer

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry

Arts 2.21, Bendigo

T: +61 3 5444 7547
F: +61 3 5444 7970
E: c.knowles@latrobe.edu.au

Qualifications

Membership of professional Associations

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

Area of study

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

Teaching Units

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/