Anne-Marie Beller received her (AHRB funded) PhD from the University of Leicester in 2003 and has taught on the English programme at 91²Ö¿â since 2004. Her position was made permanent in 2008, and she was promoted to Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature in 2015. Anne-Marie is the School Director of Widening Participation and Outreach and sits on the Education and Student Experience Committee. She has previously served on Senate and co-led the Cultural Currents Research Group.
Anne-Marie has been a member of the Victorian Popular Fiction Association (VPFA) since it was founded in 2009. Since that time she has variously served as newsletter editor, committee member, book prize judge, and annual conference organiser. Anne-Marie is also a member of the British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS).
She is on the editorial board of a number of journals and monograph series, including (VPF); ; ; ‘Key Popular Women Writers’ series (EER), ‘New Paths in Victorian Fiction and Culture’ (Edited collection series published by EER); ‘Armorica’ (monograph series published by Edizioni Tracce, Pescara, Italy). Anne-Marie was General Editor of the Wilkie Collins Journal from 2012 to 2016. She has acted as an academic consultant for Gale Cengage and Broadview Press.
Anne-Marie’s research interests are in Victorian literature and culture, particularly sensation fiction and New Woman Writing of the fin de siècle. She also has interests in Neo-Victorian Studies. Within these areas, Anne-Marie is interested in issues of gender, race, disability, and identity, representations of mental health and the history of medicine and psychiatry.
Anne-Marie’s latest article is ‘“’, Victorian Literature and Culture. 23 April, 2026. was also published in 2026. This is a translation and critical edition of Braddon’s only contribution to the French press, which she co-edited with Dr Kerry Featherstone.
Other recent work includes invited contributions to (Cambridge University Press, 2024) and (Cambridge University Press, 2024).
With Kerry Featherstone, she co-wrote a chapter on Victorian women travellers’ encounters with Islam for (Bloomsbury, 2023).
Recent Neo-Victorian work includes two co-written chapters with Claire O’Callaghan: ’ and a consideration of the afterlives of Elizabeth Siddal for the (Palgrave 2024).
Anne-Marie is currently completing two large projects. She is co-editing the Routledge Companion to Sensation Fiction, in which she also has a chapter, and is also in the final stages of a monograph on Mary Elizabeth Braddon.
Anne-Marie is working on an AHRC funding application entitled Author and Alienists: Networks of Victorian Psychiatry. Her co-leads on this project are Dr Claire O’Callaghan (91²Ö¿â) and Dr Emily Middleton (Leeds).
Anne-Marie is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and she is a member of the Education and Student Experience Committee.
Anne-Marie teaches across the English programme at 91²Ö¿â on core and optional modules, and she is co-convenor of the Dissertation module. Her teaching is on Victorian and neo-Victorian writing and topics.
Current PhD Supervision:
- Rosemary Archer, ‘‘Writing Women’s Work: Working-Class Women’s Labour in the Novels and Journalism of Margaret Harkness 1880–1921’.
- Michael Brown, ‘‘Poet’s Flu: Is Poetry Therapy or Symptom? A creative/critical thesis investigating the relationship between depression and other forms of mental illness and poetry’.
Completed:
- Hannah Palmer, ‘Abortion in Nineteenth-Century British Literature’. 2026.
- Joanna Turner, ‘Fin-de-Siècle Anxieties of Influence: Reading Dickens’ Domestic Narratives in the Selected Works of Marie Corelli 1886-1906’. 2025.
- Eleanor Dumbill,’ Vanished Authors and Invisible Trollopes: A Study of the Relationships Between Three 19th Century Women Writers and their Male Publishers’. 2020.
- Jacqueline Green. ‘Coming Upon the Town: Whores and Fallen Women in the Works of Jane Austen’. 2019.
- Claire Ashworth, ‘Memory and Trauma in the work of Charles Dickens’. 2019.
- Michael Gilmour, ‘Dickens Transformations: Oliver Twist on Stage’. PhD awarded 2019.
- Jennifer Nicol, ‘Escape Artists: Adventure and Isolation in Women’s Writing at the fin de siècle’. PhD awarded 2017.
Selected Recent Publications:
- , Victorian Literature and Culture, 2026, 1–31 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1060150325100260>
- , edited and translated with Kerry Featherstone (EER, 2026).
- ‘“”: The Neo-Victorian Afterlives of Elizabeth Siddal’ (with Claire O’Callaghan), in The Palgrave Handbook of Neo-Victorianism, eds. Sarah E. Maier and Brenda Ayres (London: Palgrave, 2024).
- ‘Sensational Bodies: Representations of Race and Disability’, in : The 1860s, edited by Pamela Gilbert (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024) pp.36-56.
- ‘Law’, in , eds. William Baker and Richard Nemesvari (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024): pp.262-270.
- ‘“Permission to Go and See the Ancient City”: Victorian Women Travellers’ Encounters with Islam (with Kerry Featherstone), in (London: Bloomsbury, 2023).
- , Victoriographies vol.12, no.3 (2022) Sensation Fiction: New Directions, special issue ed. Beth Palmer.
- ‘’ (with Claire O’Callaghan), in Alice in Wonderland in Film and Literature, ed. Antonio Sanna (London: Palgrave, 2022).