Alice Rhodes
Research Associate

Profile

Biography

Alice Rhodes completed her PhD at York in 2021. Her thesis examined speech production in British literature in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, with a particular focus on the work of Erasmus Darwin, John Thelwall and Percy Bysshe Shelley and she is currently working on her first monograph, The Matter of Speaking: Bodies and Voices in Romantic Literature.

More broadly, her research interests include: the intersection between environmental and medical humanities; eighteenth- and nineteenth-century medicine, technology, and life sciences; Romantic era politics; and materialist philosophy.

She has taught in the University of York’s Department of English and Related Literature and Writing Centre and has had articles published in Essays in Romanticism and European Romantic Review.