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Matthew Sangster joined the University of Glasgow in September 2016, following a position at the University of Birmingham. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2020 and became a Professor in 2022. He completed his BA at the University of Cambridge, MA at King’s College London, and PhD at the Royal Holloway, University of London. Between 2008 and 2014, he worked at the British Library, cataloguing the archive of the Royal Literary Fund and contributing to exhibitions, including 'Writing Britain: Wastelands and Wonderlands' in 2012. Sangster's research focuses on literary careers in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, examining how social, professional, commercial, and aesthetic factors influenced literary success. He has a strong interest in fantasy and science fiction, with publications on authors such as Mervyn Peake and China Miéville. He is the co-director of the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic and has edited multiple academic works, including a monograph on fantasy published in 2023. Active in academic leadership, he currently serves as the President of the British Association for Romantic Studies and has held numerous roles within the organization. His ongoing research includes exploring the intersections of literature and digital humanities, and he supervises multiple PhD projects.