Professor Emma Mason
Head of Department
emma dot mason at warwick dot ac dot uk
emmajmason.wordpress.com
H5.03 Humanities Building
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
About
Professor/Head of Department. 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).
Research
Late eighteenth and nineteenth-century poetry and religion, religion and ecology, affect theory, and poetry and philosophy. Recent publications include Christina Rossetti: Poetry, Ecology, Faith (Oxford University Press, 2018); current publications include Weird Faith in Nineteenth-Century Literature: Theologies at Work with Mark Knight; a new edition of Barnes' Dialect Poems in the Dorset County Chronicle; and The 1810s for the Cambridge University Press series, Re-reading the Nineteenth Century.
With Mark Knight, I edit the Bloomsbury monograph series New Directions in Religion and Literature; with Tina Lupton, I edit the Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory (Oxford University Press). I serve on the editorial boards of Literature and Theology (Oxford University Press), The John Clare Society Journal, and the Romanticism pathway of Literature Compass (Blackwell). I'm also a member of the Arts Emergency network.
Teaching and supervision
I teach undergraduate and MA modules on poetry, emotion, and philosophy in English and Comparative Literary Studies; and teach on the Philosophy and Literature degree with colleagues in Philosophy. I welcome PhD students with interests in eighteenth and nineteenth-century poetry and/or religion; as well as contemporary poetry and religion and/or ecology.
Recent publications (full list here)
Christina Rossetti: Poetry, Ecology, Faith (Oxford University Press, 2018).
Ed., Peter Larkin: Poetry, Phenomenology, Theology, special issue of the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, 12. 1 (2020).
'"How do you not be sad?" Sadness and Communication in BoJack Horseman', Post45, ed. Jack Belloli and Pamela Thurschwell (2020).
'Rossetti's Weak Apocalypse', The Ruskin Review, 14. 2 (2020), 86–99.
'Poetry', in Timothy Larsen, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Christmas (Oxford University Press, 2020).
'Praying kin: Christina Rossetti and the Unity of Things', in Jo Carruthers, Nour Dakkak, Rebecca Spence, ed., Anticipatory Materialisms in Literature and Philosophy, 1790-1930 (Palgrave, 2020).
'Considering the Lilies: Christina Rossetti's ecological Jesus', in Elizabeth Ludlow, ed., The Figure of Christ in the Nineteenth Century (Palgrave, 2020).
‘"Whales and all that move in the waters": Christina Rossetti’s ecology of grace’, in Wendy Parkins, ed., Victorian Sustainability in Literature and Culture (Routledge, 2018), 69-84.
Appointments
Please email me to make an appointment.