Leading positions

The Centre is represented upon a range of public bodies in English Studies and higher education in general, both nationally and internationally. Members have served as:

• President of the British Association of Victorian Studies (2009-2012)
• Treasurer of British Association of Victorian Studies (2006-12)
• The Advisory Board of the English Subject Centre
• The AHRC Research Panel
• Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century Division of the MLA (North America)
• Member of Specialist Panel for the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society
• Public Engagement Officer for the Council for College and University English (CCUE)
• Executive Committee Member for CCUE
• Hardy Country Steering Group Member
• Hardy Country Education Strategy Leader

The Centre is well represented on the editorial boards of many scholarly journals. These include:

• Editor-in-Chief, Literature Compass (Regenia Gagnier)
• The Hardy Review, Thomas Hardy Journal, Thomas Hardy Society Journal, ELT, Feminist Economics, Nineteenth-Century Literature, RAVon – the online journal of NINES, Victorian Literature and Culture, Victorian Studies, Women: A Cultural Review

Professor Regenia Gagnier was invited by the Queen to celebrations of the Dickens bicentenary at Buckingham Palace, in recognition of her services to Dickens 2012 and pioneering research on Global Dickens.

Professor Angelique Richardson is Associate Editor-in-Chief for the Forum for World Literature Studies. 

19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century