{"id":351,"date":"2013-03-21T09:56:27","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T09:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/?p=351"},"modified":"2017-01-13T12:00:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T12:00:40","slug":"the-school-of-english-welcomes-new-professor-of-victorian-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2013\/03\/21\/the-school-of-english-welcomes-new-professor-of-victorian-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"The School of English welcomes new Professor of Victorian Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Wendy Parkins joins the school from her previous position in the Department of\u00a0English at the University of\u00a0Otago, New Zealand. She has published widely on topics\u00a0relating to gender and modernity in Victorian\u00a0\u00a0literature, most notably her book, Mobility and Modernity in Women\u2019s Novels, 1850s-1930s (2009). Wendy\u2019s most recent book Jane Morris: The Burden of History, is to be published next month by Edinburgh University Press.<\/p>\n<p>During her time here Wendy hopes to help to\u00a0establish a new research centre in Victorian\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Literature in the school with plans including hosting a major Victorian Studies conference on campus in 2014.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/english\/people\/profiles\/parkins.html\">here<\/a> to read Wendy&#8217;s full staff profile.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Wendy Parkins joins the school from her previous position in the Department of\u00a0English at the University of\u00a0Otago, New Zealand. She has published widely on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2013\/03\/21\/the-school-of-english-welcomes-new-professor-of-victorian-literature\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2400,"featured_media":352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}