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Dr Leigh Wetherall Dickson

Associate Professor

Department: Humanities

ADSS Leighwetheralldickson Staffprofile 255My first degree was a BA in English Studies at Sheffield Hallam, followed by a PhD. In December 2006 I first joined Northumbria as the Leverhulme Research Associate for the three-year project 'Before Depression: Representation and Culture of the English Malady, 1660-1800', and have since become a full-time lecturer in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century English Literature at Northumbria.

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Office: Lipman 403



  • Bethany Brigham Reforming the Anatomy Narrative: Popular Medico-Gothic Interventions, c.1790-1850 Start Date: 01/10/2019 End Date: 30/01/2024
  • Joanne Edwards Recontextualising 'The Gay Delavals': Women's Lives and Family Narratives at the National Trust's Seaton Delaval Hall Start Date: 28/02/2024
  • Montana Davies-Shuck Follower of Fashion: Mapping the Social and Political Genealogy of the Literary Fop 1660-1789 Start Date: 01/10/2016 End Date: 20/05/2021
  • Sarah Winter Gothic Stages: The Rise and Fall of English Melodrama 1790-1890 Start Date: 04/10/2011 End Date: 11/06/2015

  • English PhD September 01 1999
  • English BA (Hons) September 01 1996


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