Samiha Begum

School of English

PhD Research Student

sbegum8@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 2XX XXXX
Qualifications
  • PhD English Literature, ϳԹ of Sheffield, 2022 to present
  • MA English, ϳԹ of Sheffield, 2022
  • BA English (with Hons), Queen Mary, ϳԹ of London, 2017
Research interests

Thesis title: Female Gothic Sublimes: Heroines, Landscapes, and Gothic Ecologies, 1789-1849

Research group

Professor Angela Wright
Professor Joe Bray

Professional activities and memberships

Sheffield Gothic - 2022-2024
Member of BARS (British Association for Romantic Studies)

Conferences:

  • '“Perfect goodness and perfect evil”: Madeline’s reclamation of power and independence in Regina Maria Roche’s Clermont (1798)' at Gothic Women, ϳԹ of Dundee, August 2023
  • 'Consuming the Gothic' at Sheffield Gothic, ϳԹ of Sheffield, November 2023 - conference organising team
  • '"The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness.” An exploration of Emily’s sensibility and classical education in Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)' at BSECS, ϳԹ of Oxford, January 2024
  • 'Reprints, Romance, and Reputation: Tracing Ann Radcliffe’s Life and Writing' at BARS, ϳԹ of Glasgow, July 2024