Dr. Mila Daskalova

Associate Professor

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Biography

Mila Daskalova is a British Academy and LKAS Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. She completed her PhD at the University of Strathclyde in 2022, where her doctoral thesis won the Sally Mitchell Dissertation Prize from the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals. Her book, 'Nineteenth-Century Asylum Periodical: Britain, America', was published by Cambridge University Press. Daskalova contributed to the Curran Index of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals and was involved in the AHRC-funded project 'Piston, Pen & Press'. In 2021, she founded and edited 'Podslon', an art and literature magazine dedicated to mental health and illness in Bulgaria. She received the G.P. Johnston Prize for Book History Bibliography in 2020. Daskalova’s current project, 'Reading Madness: Literary Origins of Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry', explores the interactions between psychiatric theory and literary production during the 1820s to 1890s. Her research interests include Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Literature and Medicine, History of Medicine and Psychiatry, Medical Humanities, and Periodical Studies.

Research Interests

Experience

British Academy and LKAS Research Fellow

2023-01-01 — 2027-12-31

University of Glasgow • Glasgow, Scotland

Engaged in research focusing on the intersections of literature and psychiatry.

Awards

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Sally Mitchell Dissertation Prize

2023-01-01
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G.P. Johnston Prize

2020-01-01