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Josephine McDonagh specializes in nineteenth-century British literature with a focus on the contexts of colonialism, imperial expansion, and migration. Her research interests explore how literary texts intersect with history, law, and political economy, particularly in the ways they reflect and shape transcontinental migratory cultures. Josephine has edited volumes on gender politics, 19th-century science, and literature, and she has written extensively about figures such as Thomas De Quincey and George Eliot, alongside themes like child murder in literature and the impact of colonial commodity cultures. Currently, she serves as the Director of the Nicholson Center for British Studies at the University of Chicago, emphasizing the multidisciplinary study of British Isles and its colonies. Josephine's recent publication includes 'Literature and Migration: British Fiction and the Movement of People, 1815–1876', which discusses how the genre of the novel has been shaped by demographic mobility and mass emigration.
Department of Philosophy