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Emily Senior is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge, where she arrived in 2023. Previously a Reader in Eighteenth-Century Romantic Literature at Birkbeck, University of London, Senior has also taught at the University of Warwick and the Open University. Her current research focuses on the Caribbean, particularly a book project that aims to explore the historical contributors to Caribbean history through 'Colonial Collections Digital Archiving'. Senior's work has recently received funding through an AHRC Fellowship for a project titled 'Anecdotal Evidence: Science Storytelling in the Global Eighteenth Century' (2022-24). She supervises doctoral students interested in eighteenth-century Romantic literatures, Caribbean Atlantic literatures, and the relationships between literature, science, and medicine, among other interdisciplinary fields. Senior has published a monograph entitled 'Caribbean Medical Imagination, 1764-1834: Slavery, Disease, Colonial Modernity' with Cambridge University Press in 2018, which won the University English Book Prize in 2019. Her contributions to the academic community extend to edited special issues and various scholarly articles, including recent works on Jamaican-British literary grief practices.
Birkbeck, University of London • London, UK
Taught and researched topics in Eighteenth-Century Romantic Literature.
University of Cambridge • Cambridge, UK
Teaching and conducting research in Eighteenth-Century Romantic Literature at the Faculty of English.
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