Joanna Wharton
Research Associate

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Biography

Joanna Wharton works on literary-scientific cultures of Romantic Britain and Ireland. She gained her MA and PhD in English at York and published her first book, Material Enlightenment: Women Writers and the Science of Mind, 1770-1830 (Boydell, 2018), as an Early Career Fellow at Lichtenberg-Kolleg, the Göttingen Institute for Advanced Study.

Joanna has essays in the Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Journal of Literature and Science, and Anna Letitia Barbauld: New Perspectives (Bucknell, 2013), and is developing a second monograph project on the literary history of optical telegraphy, with a particular focus on the collaborative writings of Maria and Richard Lovell Edgeworth.