Dr Lars Atkin

BA, MA Oxford; MA, PhD, Queen Mary University of London 

Dr Lars Atkin has research interests in the global nineteenth-century, particularly colonial newspaper poetry, periodicals and Indigenous diplomacy. Their most recent monograph Writing the South African San: Colonial Ethnographic Discourses (Palgrave, 2021) offers an innovative new framework for reading British and British settler representations of Indigenous peoples in the nineteenth century using methodologies drawn from new imperial history and critical Indigenous studies. They are co-Investigator, with Éadaoin Agnew, on the AHRC-funded Victorian Diversities research network. They are also co-editor, with Emily Bell, of The Curran Index, an index revealing the authorship of over 168,000 contributions to nineteenth-century periodicals. They are also co-director of the Centre for Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies and member of the Centre for the Study of Empire. 

Nineteenth Century British literature, Victorian studies, British Romanticism, Victorian literature, Romantic literature, colonial print culture, race theory, history of science

Lars has undergraduate and postgraduate teaching experience in nineteenth-century British and colonial literatures, postcolonial literature and theory and imperial and global history.

Lars would welcome enquiries from postgraduates interested in global Victorian and Romanticism; literature and Empire, or in the cultural history of race and representation during the long nineteenth-century.

Member of the Postcolonial Studies Association, the British Association of Victorian Studies and the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals.