Dr. Emma Clery

Biography

Emma Clery is a Professor in the Department of English Literature at Uppsala University, specializing in British literature from the 18th to 19th centuries, print culture, women's writing, and cultural history economics. Clery's research includes notable studies on early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft with an upcoming publication through Oxford University Press, as well as contributions to the Cambridge Companion on Literature and Economics. Previously, she held positions at Keele University and Sheffield Hallam University, where she served as a Senior Research Fellow on the AHRB-funded Corvey Project focusing on Romantic-era women's writing. Clery was also a Professor of Eighteenth-Century English Literature at the University of Southampton from 2005 to 2020, where she developed connections with Chawton House Library, renowned for its rare collection of early women’s writing. Throughout her career, she has received recognition for her work, including the Leverhulme Trust Major Fellowship, culminating in the publication of several influential books, such as Eighteen Hundred Eleven: Poetry, Protest Economic Crisis, which won the British Academy Rose Crawshay Prize in 2018. Her research interests encompass key figures like Jane Austen and the dynamics of economics and literature during the period from 1700 to 1830.

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