Rebekah Cohen, Newnham
Course: English
Supervisor: Dr Ruth Abbott
Dissertation Title: Novel Inventions: Comedy and Utopian Potential in Victorian Literary Realism
Biographical Information
I previously studied at the University of Oxford, where I read for my BA in English Language and Literature at Somerville College, followed by an MSt in English (1830-1914) at Merton College. I then spent a year working as Graduate Trainee Librarian at Christ's College in Cambridge, where I enjoyed working with and researching the library's Special Collections.
Now, I am excited to be studying for my PhD at Newnham College, funded by a Cambridge Trust Vice-Chancellor's and Newnham College Scholarship. My PhD research investigates concepts of novelty and form in mid-nineteenth-century periodicals, and in works by periodical writers such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, G. H. Lewes, Matthew Arnold.
Research Interests
In addition to my PhD research, my research interests more broadly include: nineteenth-century periodical forms/culture; book history; Victorian utopias; history and theory of the novel; comedy; technology and literary/mechanical invention; George Eliot.
