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Alice Jenkins is a Professor of Victorian Literature and Culture at the University of Glasgow. Her research primarily focuses on the emergence of the knowledge economy in the nineteenth century, particularly examining the intersections of literature and science. Her publications include "Space 'March Mind’: Literature and the Physical Sciences, 1815-1850" (OUP, 2007) and the edition of Michael Faraday’s essays, titled "Michael Faraday’s ‘Mental Exercises’: Artisan Essay-Circle in Regency London" (Liverpool 2008). She is currently working on a book regarding Victorian ideas of the ultimate unity of knowledge, which explores the cultural history of Euclidean geometry in the nineteenth century. This project is part of her three-year research initiative, ‘Nineteenth-Century Euclid,’ which has been funded by the European Research Council. Professor Jenkins also supervises student research on nineteenth-century poetry and non-fiction prose, welcoming applications from those interested in fantastic fiction.