Johanna Harrison-Oram

Johanna Harrison-Oram

Mrs

Personal profile

Research interests

My provisional thesis title is ‘A woman’s life in labour: women, work, and speculation in the fin-de-siècle novel, 1880-1901’. My thesis argues that there is a speculative quality to women’s labour in the fin-de-siècle realist novel, particularly in undervalued labour practices such as maternity and childrearing, political speech, agricultural labour, and urban commerce. Through my research, I more broadly argue that end-century literary realism reframed speculation as a gendered labour practice that philosophically and materially contributed towards British interests.

Education/Academic qualification

English Literature, Master of Arts in Modern Literature and Culture, Between vector and victim: the temporal project of contagion in the novels of Shelley, Gaskell, and Brontë, King's College London

1 Sept 2020 → 1 Sept 2022

Award Date: 30 Nov 2022

Music Performance, Graduate Certificate in Music: Soprano, Guildhall School of Music and Drama

1 Sept 2017 → 1 Sept 2019

Award Date: 1 Sept 2019

English Literature and Language, BA (Hons), Engaging with evil: Britten’s post-war libretti and their literary source texts, University of Oxford

1 Oct 2011 → 1 Sept 2014

Award Date: 1 Sept 2014

External positions

Editor-in-Chief, Romance, Revolution, & Reform

17 Jan 2024 → 17 Jan 2025

Committee Member, The London Nineteenth-Century Studies Seminar Series Graduate Strand

18 Jul 2022 → 1 Sept 2023

Deputy Editor, Romance, Revolution, & Reform

1 Jan 2022 → …

Postgraduate Editor and Board Member , Romance, Revolution, & Reform

7 Oct 2021 → 1 Jan 2022

  • 2 Conference contribution
  • 1 Editorial