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Natasha Booth-Johnson

Languages and Literature, University of Birmingham

Thesis title:

Queer Fiction by Politically Active Female Authors (1870-1910)

Research Area

  • English Language and Literature
  • Languages and Literature

Publications

Booth-Johnson, Natasha, 'Dustin Friedman's Before Queer Theory: Victorian Aestheticism and the Self (Review)', Ad Alta Vol 11 (2019)

Conferences

'The Evidence of [Her] Own Senses': Gender, Power, and Marriage in the Spiritualist Fiction of Florence Marryat', Gothic Studies Works in Progress, August 2021

'Edith Simcox's Queer Entities', ROLES XI Annual Conference, June 2022

'Edith Simcox's Queer Bodies', British Association of Decadent Studies - Decadent Bodies, July 2022

'Queer Fiction by Politically Active Female Authors: Edith Simcox', British Association for Victorian Studies, September 2022.

'Isabella Ford and the Dream of the Lesbian Utopia', Intersections, March 2023

Public Engagement & Impact

EiC of QueerNineteen.com

Memberships

Birmingham Nineteenth Century Centre

British Association of Decadent Studies

British Association for Victorian Studies

Victorian Popular Fiction Association


Awards

Global Undergraduate Awards (2019) - Highly Commended