
Professor Mark Llewellyn
Professor
School of English, Communication and Philosophy
- llewellynm4@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2087 6119.
- JP 2.43, John Percival Building, Colum Drive, Cardiff, CF10 3EU
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
I joined Cardiff as Professor of English Literature in December 2017. Within ENCAP, alongside my teaching and research, I am the School’s Director of Research Funding. I also hold an advisory role within the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences focused on working with colleagues across disciplinary fields to engage with and secure external funding from the Research Councils, charities and international funding agencies. This draws on my experience as Director of Research at the Arts and Humanities Research Council (2012-17).
Research interests
I have published extensively in my dual fields of late-Victorian and contemporary literary studies. My publication list is wide-ranging and includes a co-authored monograph (2010) in the field of neo-Victorianism, two volumes in a 5-volume scholarly edition (2007), an anthology set (2013), three co-edited collections (2007, 2010, 2014), guest-edited journal special issues (6 in total) and over 40 journal articles and book chapters.
My current research interests include:
- fin de siècle literature and culture (on which I teach a specialist year 2 module)
- contemporary fiction, particularly women’s writing
- adaptations of the nineteenth century in contemporary culture and society, specifically Neo-Victorianism.
Academic Activities
I am Consultant Editor to the journal Neo-Victorian Studies and an editorial board member for the Routledge series ‘Gender and Genre’. I have previously been editor of the Journal of Gender Studies.
I review regularly for publishers, journals and funding agencies both in the UK and internationally, in addition to assessments relating to promotion applications and REF preparation and planning. In the last two years, for example, I’ve reviewed or served as a panel member/chair for research councils in Canada, Cyprus, and Poland, the Equality Challenge Unit for the Athena SWAN scheme, and served as a panel member for HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area). While working at the AHRC I chaired over 50 panels ranging from large themed grants to joint panels with the BBC and the Heritage Lottery Fund, as well as being a member of funder panels for the ESRC among others.
I have previously held roles within subject organisations such as the British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) where I served on the committee as membership secretary and honorary secretary.
I regularly undertake external examining for research degrees both in the UK and overseas. I have always sought to encourage the development of researchers and regularly speak to events and training programmes for early career staff around research funding and career planning.
In relation to neo-Victorianism I’ve appeared on BBC Radio 3’s Freethinking to talk about the endurance of cultural and critical interest in the Victorians.
Biography
I’m originally from Swansea, which is where I also studied for my BA, MA and PhD.
Between 2012 and 2017 I was the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Director of Research. I simultaneously held the John Anderson Research Leadership Professorship of English at the University of Strathclyde, 2012-15, and have been a Visiting Professor in the School of Humanities since 2015. I joined Strathclyde following time as an AHRC Postdoctoral Research Assistant (2006-7) working on a project at Gladstone’s Library in North Wales, a Vice Chancellor’s Future Research Leader Lecturer (2007-9) and Senior Lecturer (2009-11) in English at the University of Liverpool, where I also served as Director of Postgraduate Research for the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (2008-2011).
Publications
2018
- Llewellyn, M. 2018. Are all (neo-) Victorians murderers? Serials, killers and other historicidal maniacs. Literature Compass 15(7), article number: e12462. (10.1111/lic3.12462)
2017
- Llewellyn, M. 2017. Afterword: Living in the library: On my (neo-)Victorian education. Neo-Victorian Studies 10(1), pp. 133-151.
2016
- Llewellyn, M. and David, S. 2016. On university pressing and evidence pu(bli)shing: The view from a funder. Learned Publishing 29(S1), pp. 360-365. (10.1002/leap.1048)
- Heilmann, A. and Llewellyn, M. 2016. The Victorians, sex and gender. In: John, J. ed. The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 161-177.
2015
- Heilmann, A. and Llewellyn, M. 2015. To a lesser extent: Neo-Victorian masculinities [Guest-edited special issue]. Victoriographies 52(2), pp. 97-104. (10.3366/vic.2015.0187)
- Heilmann, A. and Llewellyn, M. 2015. Introduction: To a lesser extent? Neo-Victorian masculinities. Victoriographies 5(2), pp. 97-104. (10.3366/vic.2015.0187)
2014
- Heilmann, A. and Llewellyn, M. 2014. Gender and sexuality. In: Saler, M. ed. The Fin-de-Siecle World. Routledge Worlds London: Routledge, pp. 503-517.
- Heilmann, A. 2014. George Moore and Pearl Craigie's 'The Fool's Hour' [edited manuscript]. In: Heilmann, A. and Llewellyn, M. eds. George Moore: Influence and Collaboration. University of Delaware Press, Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 219-271.
- Heilmann, A. and Llewellyn, M. eds. 2014. George Moore: influence and collaboration. University of Delaware Press.
- Heilmann, A. and Llewellyn, M. 2014. Introduction. In: Heilmann, A. and Llewellyn, M. eds. George Moore: Influence and Collaboration. University of Delaware Press, Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 1-23.
- Heilmann, A. and Llewellyn, M. 2014. On the Neo-Victorians: now and then. In: Tucker, H. F. ed. A New Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 493-506.
- Llewellyn, M. and Heilmann, A. 2014. Neo-Victorianism. In: Tucker, H. F. ed. A New Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture. Oxford and New York: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 493-506.
- Llewellyn, M. and Heilmann, A. 2014. George Moore at the Fin de Siècle. In: Llewellyn, M. and Heilmann, A. eds. George Moore and Contemporaries. Delaware: University of Delaware Press
- Llewellyn, M. 2014. Journey's End in Lovers Meeting: a new text. In: Llewellyn, M. and Heilmann, A. eds. George Moore and Contemporaries. Delaware: University of Delaware Press
- Llewellyn, M. and Heilmann, A. 2014. From Wagnerian Künstlerroman to Freudian family romance: The quest for female selfhood in George Moore's Evelyn Innes (1896) and Sister Teresa (1901). In: Huguet, C. and Dabrigeon-Garcier, F. eds. George Moore Across Borders. Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 139-159.
2013
- Heilmann, A. and Llewellyn, M. 2013. The Victorians now: Global reflections on neo-Victorianism. Critical Quarterly 55(1), pp. 24-42. (10.1111/criq.12035)
- Llewellyn, M. 2013. Introduction. In: Llewellyn, M., Cox, J. and Muller, N. eds. Women and Belief, 1832-1928. Oxford: Routledge/Taylor and Francis
- Heilmann, A. and Llewellyn, M. 2013. The quest for female selfhood in Evelyn Innes and Sister Teresa: From Wagnerian Kunstlerroman to Freudian family romance. In: Huguet, C. and Dabrigeon-Garcier, F. eds. George Moore: Across Borders. DQR Studies in Literature Vol. 51. Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 139-159.
- Llewellyn, M., Cox, J. and Muller, N. eds. 2013. Women and belief, 1832-1928. History of Feminism Vol. 2. Oxford: Routledge.
2012
- Llewellyn, M. 2012. Authenticity, authority and the author: the sugared voice of the Neo-Victorian in the crimson petal and the white. In: Kim, R. and Westall, C. eds. Cross-Gendered Voices: Appropriating, Resisting, Embracing. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 185-203.
- Llewellyn, M. 2012. George Moore, the credit crunch and cultural economics. In: Frazier, A. and Montague, C. eds. George Moore: New Essays. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, pp. 1-8.
2011
- Muller, N. and Llewellyn, M. 2011. Feminisms, sex and the body. Journal of Gender Studies 20(4), pp. 315-319. (10.1080/09589236.2011.617600)
- Llewellyn, M. 2011. On Lines and their Crossing. Victorian Network 3(1), pp. 64-70.
2010
- Heilmann, A. and Llewellyn, M. 2010. Neo-Victorianism: The Victorians in the Twenty-First Century, 1999-2009. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Llewellyn, M. and Birch, D. Llewellyn, M. and Birch, D. eds. 2010. Conflict and difference in nineteenth-century literature. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Llewellyn, M. 2010. Perfectly innocent, natural, playful?: The incest game in neo-Victorian women's writing. In: Kohlke, M. and Gutleben, C. eds. Neo-Victorian Tropes of Trauma. Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 133-160.
- Llewellyn, M. and Birch, D. 2010. Introduction: on conflict and difference in nineteenth-century literature. In: Llewellyn, M. and Birch, D. eds. Conflict and Difference in Nineteenth-Century Literature. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-13.
2009
- Llewellyn, M. 2009. Neo-Victorianism: On the Ethics and Aesthetics of Appropriation. LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory 20(1-2), pp. 27-44. (10.1080/10436920802690398)
- Llewellyn, M. 2009. Spectrality, S(p)ecularity and Textuality: Or, Some Reflections in the Glass. In: Arias, R. and Pulham, P. eds. Haunting and Spectrality in Neo-Victorian Fiction. Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 39-58.
2008
- Heilmann, A. and Llewellyn, M. 2008. Hystorical fictions: women (re)writing and (re)reading history [Guest-edited special issue]. Women: A Cultural Review 15(2), pp. 137-152. (10.1080/0957404042000234006)
- Llewellyn, M. 2008. Entries on 'George Eliot' and 'Education'. In: Warwick, A. and Willis, M. eds. The Victorian Literature Handbook. Continuum
- Llewellyn, M. 2008. What is Neo-Victorian Studies?. Neo-Victorian Studies 1.1, pp. 164-185.
- Llewellyn, M. 2008. 'Posthumous Productivity', political philosophy, and neo-Victorian style: Review essay on Paul Ginsborg, Democracy: Crisis and Renewal. Neo-Victorian Studies 2(1), pp. 179-186.
2007
- Heilmann, A. and Llewellyn, M. eds. 2007. Metafiction and metahistory in contemporary women's writing. Literature & Performing Arts Collection 2007. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. (10.1057/9780230206281)
- Llewellyn, M. 2007. 'One of God's Spies': Patricia Duncker's queer gothic. Women: a cultural review 18(1), pp. 84-97. (10.1080/09574040701276753)
- Llewellyn, M. and Heilmann, A. 2007. Introduction: a past of her own: history and the modernist woman writer [Guest-edited special issue]. Critical Survey -Oxford- 19(1), pp. 1-4. (10.3167/cs.2007.190101)
- Heilmann, A. and Llewellyn, M. 2007. Editorial: political hystories [Guest-edited special issue]. Feminist Review 85, pp. 1-7. (10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400315)
- Heilmann, A. and Llewellyn, M. 2007. The collected short stories of George Moore: gender and genre, volume 1-5. Pickering and Chatto.
- Heilmann, A. and Llewellyn, M. 2007. Introduction. In: Heilmann, A. and Llewellyn, M. eds. Metafiction and metahistory in contemporary women’s writing. Literature & performing arts collection 2007 Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-12., (10.1057/9780230206281)
- Heilmann, A. and Llewellyn, M. 2007. General introduction. In: Moore, G. et al. eds. The collected short stories of George Moore: gender and genre, volume 1-5. Pickering masters London: Pickering and Chatto
- Llewellyn, M. and Heilmann, A. 2007. George Moore and literary censorship: the textual and sexual history of "John Norton" and "Hugh Monfert". English Literature in Transition 50(4), pp. 371-392. (10.2487/elt.50.4(2007)0006)
- Llewellyn, M. 2007. Breaking the mould: Sarah Waters and the politics of genre. In: Llewellyn, M. and Heilmann, A. eds. Metafiction and Metahistory in Contemporary Women?s Writing. Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 195-210.
- Llewellyn, M. 2007. Pagan Moore: Poetry, Painting and Passive Masculinity in George Moore?s Flowers of Passion (1877) and Pagan Poems (1881). Victorian Poetry 45(1), pp. 77-92. (10.1353/vp.2007.0017)
2006
- Llewellyn, M. 2006. Entry on Thomas Carew. In: Brulotte, G. and Phillips, J. eds. Encyclopaedia of Erotic Literature. Routledge/Taylor & Francis, pp. 202-204.
- Llewellyn, M. 2006. Entry on Chaucer. In: Brulotte, G. and Phillips, J. eds. Encyclopaedia of Erotic Literature. Routledge/Taylor & Francis, pp. 225-227.
- Llewellyn, M. 2006. Entry on The Exeter Book Riddles. In: Brulotte, G. and Phillips, J. eds. Encyclopaedia of Erotic Literature. Routledge/Taylor & Francis, pp. 438-439.
- Llewellyn, M. 2006. Entry on Gwerful Mechain's 'The Female Genitals'. In: Brulotte, G. and Phillips, J. eds. Encyclopaedia of Erotic Literature. Routledge/Taylor & Francis, pp. 878-879.
- Llewellyn, M. 2006. 'Cease thy wanton lust': the cult of Venetia, Thomas Randolph's elegy and the possibilities of classical sex. In: Barfoot, C. C. ed. 'And Never Know the Joy?: Sex and the Erotic in English Poetry. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, pp. 89-106.
- Llewellyn, M. 2006. Religion and its (artistic) discontents: gender, celibacy, the artist and George Moore. In: Pierse, M. S. ed. George Moore: Artistic Visions and Literary Worlds. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, pp. 220-231.
- Llewellyn, M. 2006. 'George Moore, "John Oliver Hobbes" and the New Woman Artist'. RSV: Rivista di Studi Vittoriani 21, pp. 75-92.
2005
- Llewellyn, M. and Heilmann, A. 2005. Women writing history [Guest-edited special issue]. Women’s Writing 12(1), pp. 3-11. (10.1080/09699080500200245)
- Llewellyn, M. 2005. Masculinity, materialism and the introjected self in George Moore's Mike Fletcher: "I'm weary of playing at Faust". English Literature in Transition 48(2), pp. 131-146. (10.2487/YL6T-W758-10Q2-2L35)
2004
- Heilmann, A. and Llewellyn, M. 2004. What Kitty knew: George Moore's John Norton, multiple personality, and the psychopathology of late-Victorian sex crime. Nineteenth-Century Literature 59(3), pp. 372-403. (10.1525/ncl.2004.59.3.372)
- Llewellyn, M. 2004. Queer? I should say it is criminal!: Sarah Waters' Affinity (1999). Journal of Gender Studies 13(3), pp. 203-214. (10.1080/0958923042000287821)
2002
- Llewellyn, M. 2002. Katherine Philips: Friendship, poetry and neo-Platonic thought in seventeenth century England. Philological Quarterly 81(4), pp. 441-468.
Teaching
I teach a specialist undergraduate option entitled 'Decadent Men: Wilde to Forster, 1890s-1910s' which looks at questions of masculinity and decadence at the end of the Victorian period across a range of forms, artists and writers.
I am currently completing the following projects, which will be published over the next few years:
- a short book on neo-Victorianism and contemporary political and economic culture/s;
- a book on Incest in English Culture, 1835-1907;
- a co-edited (with Rosario Arias) special journal issue on neo-Victorianism and hospitality;
- an essayistic duet on celibacy in the 1890s.
Supervision
My current research interests include:
- Victorian literature and culture, especially the fin de siècle
- contemporary fiction, particularly women’s writing
- adaptations of the nineteenth century in contemporary culture and society, specifically Neo-Victorianism
- gender, sexuality and identity from the Victorian period to the present
I have plans for future projects in relation to Victorian cultural and knowledge organisations in the 21st century; the current ‘autobiocritical turn’ in literary and cultural studies; and notions of credit and indebtedness.
I welcome enquires from potential doctoral and postdoctoral researchers with plans to develop projects in any of these areas.