r. Éadaoin Agnew is a senior lecturer at Kingston University, London, where she specialises in nineteenth-century literatures of race and empire with a particular interest in the anglophone literatures of India. Her current research focuses on the transnational literary encounters between British and Indian women, and she has a forthcoming chapter in Re-Examining Nineteenth-Century Easts: Gendered Narratives of Encounter edited by Claudia Capancioni, Mariaconcetta Constantini, and Julia Kuehn (2026). She is also working on a related monograph; this follows her first book Imperial Women Writers in Victorian India: Representing Colonial Life 1850-1910 (Palgrave 2017) and a number of scholarly articles and book chapters including publications on Alice Perrin’s short stories (2022) and Swami Vivekanada’s yoga texts (2023).
Éadaoin is also the PI of the Victorian Diversities Research Network (https://victoriandiversities.co.uk) which seeks to recuperate and promote nineteenth-century writers of colour by taking an inclusive approach to Victorian literary studies. It explores new methodologies for reading the literature of race and empire and develops new pedagogies for teaching diverse nineteenth-century texts in schools and universities. The network runs a regular reading group and has organised symposiums in University of Kent, University of Bristol, and the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad.
She is wholly committed to the principles of equality, diversity, and inclusivity in education, and she shares her passion for diverse literary histories with a wider reading public through creative walks and talks in locations around London.
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