Humanities Staff

Dr Hilary Weeks
BA Hons (York); MA (UCLA); PhD (Gloucestershire)

Position
Course Leader, English Literature

Contact
Email: hweeks@glos.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 12424 714147

Dr Weeks is the Course Leader for English Literature. Her research and teaching interests are in nineteenth-century literature, especially poetry; Tennyson; Ruskin; Romantic-Victorian affinities; Tractarian writing; aesthetics; architecture and architectural writing; intermediality; religion; and European literary connections. She has published articles in Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia (New York and London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003). Her article on Tennyson’s early travels to the Continent will shortly appear in A Sense of Home: Travel Writing and Transnational Identities, ed. Jan Borm, and she is currently working on a book about literature and architecture in the nineteenth century. Dr Weeks has also recently co-produced a guide to using online discussion boards in English Studies for the English Subject Centre, and takes a keen interest in University access education, lecturing to sixth-form students across the country. She is a member of the British Association of Victorian Studies, the Victorian Society, and the Tennyson Society, among others; and she is a research associate of the Laboratoire Suds d’Amériques at the University of Versailles.