Clare Stainthorp

1

Article

1

Comment

I am a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Queen Mary University of London, primarily working on a project about nineteenth-century atheist, secular, and agnostic movements and the associated periodical press. More broadly, I am a specialist in literature and intellectual history.

My book – Constance Naden: Scientist, Philosopher and Poet (Peter Lang, 2019) – introduces an exemplary interdisciplinary thinker whose poetry and prose illuminates how synthetic thinking was a productive and creative force within nineteenth-century intellectual culture. My research on this topic has also been published in Victorian Poetry and Victorian Literature and Culture. I co-edited a Routledge Historical Resource volume with Naomi Hetherington, titled Nineteenth-Century Religion, Literature, and Culture: Disbelief and New Beliefs (2020).

I was a Research Assistant on 'Exploring Inequalities – igniting research to better inform UK policy’, a collaborative project led by UCL and the Resolution Foundation for which I co-wrote the final report: 'Structurally Unsound' (launched October 2019). I was also the Research Impact Officer for the Faculties of Arts & Humanities and Social & Historical Sciences at UCL (2019-20). I have previously taught at the University of Birmingham and UCL.

Experience

  • 2021–present
    Postdoctoral research fellow, Queen Mary University of London
  • 2019–2019
    Research assistant, University College London
  • 2017–2018
    Postdoctoral fellow, Cardiff University
  • 2016–2017
    Assistant lecturer, University of Birmingham

Education

  • 2017 
    University of Birmingham, PhD
  • 2011 
    University of Glasgow, MLitt
  • 2010 
    University of Glasgow, MA (Hons)

Publications

  • 2020
    Nineteenth-Century Religion, Literature and Society: Disbelief and New Beliefs, Routledge
  • 2019
    Constance Naden: Scientist, Philosopher, Poet, Peter Lang
  • 2019
    Exploring Inequalities: Igniting research to better inform UK policy, UCL & Resolution Foundation Report
  • 2018
    On the Discovery of a Sequence of Constance Naden’s Notebooks: Finding her Voice, 1875-79, Victorian Poetry

Grants and Contracts

  • 2021
    Reading the Freethought Movement: Atheism, Agnosticism, and Secularism, 1866–1907
    Role:
    PI
    Funding Source:
    Leverhulme Trust

Contact Clare for

  • General
  • Media request
  • Speaking request
  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration