Professor

emma dot mason at warwick dot ac dot uk

5.44 Faculty of Arts Building
University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7EQ

About

Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies. Research and teaching: Christianity and literature, Catholic theology/philosophy, eighteenth and nineteenth-century studies.

BA English Literature; MA Critical and Cultural Theory (University of Cardiff-Wales); PhD English and Comparative Literary Studies (University of Warwick and University of Madison-Wisconsin); British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (Corpus Christi, Oxford). I served as Head of English and Comparative Literary Studies at Warwick from 2018-2023.

Research

Within the field of Christianity and literature, my research is focused on Catholic poetry, contemplation, and mysticism, and its implications for our modern thinking of ecology and care of our common home. My last book was Christina Rossetti: Poetry, Ecology, Faith (Oxford University Press, 2018), and I am currently working on William Barnes (volume III of the Oxford University Press Complete Poems of William Barnes; and the Edinburgh University Press Dialect Poems in the Dorset County Chronicle); an edited collection on The 1810s for the Cambridge University Press series, Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition; and Weird Faith in Nineteenth-Century Literature: Theologies at Work (Bloomsbury) with Mark Knight.

With Mark Knight, I edit the Bloomsbury monograph series New Directions in Religion and Literature. I serve on several editorial boards, including Literature and Theology; and am a member of the Power of the Word Project, Scholars of Religion and Literature Network, The Kilvert Society, and the Catholic Women Writers Network.

Teaching and supervision

I teach undergraduate and postgraduate modules on poetry, theology, and philosophy; and welcome PhD students with interests in Christian poetry from the eighteenth century to the present.