Associate Professor Trish Ferguson
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
School of Humanities
0151 291 3512
fergust@hope.ac.uk
I studied as both an undergraduate and postgraduate at Trinity College Dublin. I have been working as a lecturer in English Literature at Liverpool Hope University since 2011.
Teaching
I am currently teaching first-year seminars on poetry, prose and drama, second-year lectures and seminars on nineteenth-century literature (including works such as Frankenstein, The Jungle Book and Dracula) and supervise a wide range of dissertations at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. I lead a Writing Workshop tutorial strand on the first-year curriculum in which I support students in the development of key skills in academic writing, such as essay structure, engaging with scholarly research in an essay, and referencing.
Research
My research and teaching interests span from the Romantic era to the present. I have published an edited volume of essays entitled Victorian Time: Technologies, Standardizations, Catastrophes (Palgrave, 2013) that examines the impact on selected literary texts of new ways of thinking about time influenced by industrialization. I subsequently published an edited volume Literature and Modern Time: Technological Modernity, Glimpses of Eternity, Experiments with Time (Palgrave, 2020) focused on the influence on literature of new concepts of time introduced by Nietzsche, Bergson, Einstein, Geley and Dunne. I recently completed a new edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's His Last Bow for Oxford University Press and an article on Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd for Victoriographies. I am also working on editing three volumes of source on new ideas about time in the nineteenth century (focusing on industrialization, the human experience of time and the philosophy of time) for Routledge. I am also developing a project on time in the Anthropocene.
Faculty and School Roles
In my faculty role as Senior Academic Adviser I offer guidance to students in Humanities subjects related to progressing through the degree, often offering supports to students experiencing adverse circumstances. I am currently the Research Excellence Framework coordinator for the School of English.
Recent Publications
Literature and Modern Time: Technological Modernity, Glimpses of Eternity, Experiments with Time (Palgrave, 2020)
'This volume covers a great deal of ground. It also does so masterfully. Its coverage, from the end of the 19th century to the 1930s, proves crucial to revealing the many factors that go into the making of a chronotope, not only within a work of literature but also within an era. As a result, the volume contains much of interest to anyone invested in the study of time. (Stephanie Nelson, KronoScope, Issue 22, 2022)
Trish Ferguson, Maud Gonne (UCD Press, 2019).
- Sonja Tiernan. 'A contemporary assessment of Maud Gonne's life and work is long due. Trish Ferguson provides a vital contribution to our knowledge of this revolutionary and captivating character in the wake of many centenary celebrations which overlooked her role in the fight for Irish independence.'