Contact details
- Name:
- Dr Flore Janssen
- Qualifications:
- PhD at Birkbeck (2018)
- Position/Fellowship type:
- Early Career Research Fellow
- Fellowship term:
- 01-Oct-2019 to 31-Dec-2020
- Institute:
- Institute of English Studies
- Email address:
- flore.janssen@sas.ac.uk
- Website:
- https://ies.sas.ac.uk/people/dr-flore-janssen
Research Summary and Profile
- Research interests:
- English Literature
- Summary of research interests and expertise:
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Flore Janssen’s research interests centre on women’s activist writing in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
She completed her PhD on activist writers Clementina Black and Margaret Harkness at Birkbeck in 2018 and has since held a Wellcome ISSF fellowship to research late nineteenth-century rhetoric around poverty and public health. She co-edited Margaret Harkness: Writing Social Engagement 1880–1921 (MUP 2019) with Lisa C. Robertson. She is reviews editor of the Literary London Journal.