Vicky Margree

Dr Victoria Margree is a specialist in literary fiction and feminist theory.

She is currently co-editing a collection for Routledge on 'Neo-Victorianism and Transnational Memory: Literature, Culture, Transmediality' (forthcoming 2024).

And she is writing a book for Polity Press on 'What is Radical Feminism' (forthcoming 2025).

Her monograph British Women's Short Supernatural Fiction, 1860-1930: Our Own Ghostliness (Palgrave, 2019) explores how the ghost story functioned as a public forum for negotiating women's changing experiences across the period of first wave feminism. It looks at stories by Margaret Oliphant, Charlotte Riddell, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Edith Nesbit, Alice Perrin, Eleanor Scott and Violet Hunt.

She has also published a book on the second wave feminist theorist, Shulamith Firestone (Zero Books, 2018); and co-edited an essay collection on fin de siècle popular fiction author, Richard Marsh (MUP, 2018). She is co-founder of the Short Story Network, a network for researchers of the short story of the long 19th century.

She is particularly interested in supervising research projects in the following areas:

• Women's writing
• Feminist philosophy
• Reproductive politics
• Gothic and supernatural fiction
• Science fiction, utopianism/dystopianism and Afrofuturism
• Victorian and Edwardian fiction
• The short story

Dr Margree completed a BA Honours degree in Philosophy and Literature at the University of Sussex, and then went on to take a Master’s Degree in English Literature: Critical Theory. She completed her AHRC-funded DPhil in English Literature also at Sussex University, exploring constructions of ‘madness’ and ‘abnormality’ in the theoretical work of French philosophers Gaston Bachelard and Georges Canguilhem, and in literary fictions by Maurice Blanchot and Bessie Head.

Following the completion of her doctorate, Margree worked as a Visiting Lecturer for a number of institutions before taking up a full-time post at the University of Brighton.

Teaching and research as complementary activities underline Dr Margree's approach. Her recent book on Shulamith Firestone was informed by ten years' experience of discussing this thinker with undergraduate students on a course on feminism on the Humanities programme. She also hugely enjoys discussing Victorian Gothic fiction with BA students. She believes in teaching in small group seminars that enable students to articulate their own positions and to learn from one another as well as from academics.