
Dr Danielle Mariann Dove
About
Biography
Danielle Dove is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Surrey. Her research centres on Victorian and Neo-Victorian literature, with a specific focus on dress and fashion history, material culture, and literary celebrity. Previously, she worked as a Research Assistant on the 'Celebrity, Citizenship, and Status' project at the University of Portsmouth, and as an Associate Tutor in English Literature at the University of Surrey, where she received her PhD in 2020.
Her monograph, provisionally entitled Victorian Dress in Contemporary Historical Fiction is under contract with Bloomsbury Academic. She is the co-editor of Neo-Victorian Things: Re-Imagining Nineteenth-Century Material Cultures (Palgrave Macmillan) and has published articles on ‘Ghostly Gloves’ and Dickens's Dolly Varden dress.
Areas of specialism
University roles and responsibilities
- SLL Department Disability Co-ordinator
- Dissertations Tutor
- Deputy Admissions Tutor
News
In the media
ResearchResearch interests
Danielle is a scholar of Victorian and Neo-Victorian literature. Her research interests include:
- Victorian literature and culture
- Neo-Victorianism
- Contemporary (historical) fiction
- Material culture
- Dress and fashion history
- Nineteenth-century celebrity culture
- Gender and feminist theory
Research interests
Danielle is a scholar of Victorian and Neo-Victorian literature. Her research interests include:
- Victorian literature and culture
- Neo-Victorianism
- Contemporary (historical) fiction
- Material culture
- Dress and fashion history
- Nineteenth-century celebrity culture
- Gender and feminist theory
Teaching
In 2022-23 I am teaching:
Semester One
- Understanding the Novel (module leader)
- Theories of Reading I
- Dissertation writing (module leader)
Semester Two
- Geographies of Nation and Empire: The Victorian Novel, 1850-1890 (module leader)
- History of English Literature II (module leader)
- Dissertation writing (module leader)