Dr Fariha Shaikh Department of English LiteratureSenior Lecturer in Victorian Literature Contact details Telephone0121 414 6038Emailf.n.shaikh@bham.ac.uk View my research portal AddressDepartment of English LiteratureUniversity of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT UK My research focusses on the relationships in the nineteenth century between genre, form and globalisation. In particular, I’m interested in the mobility and materiality of literature in the context of nineteenth-century settler colonialism. I work and teach across the breadth of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Qualifications PhD, King’s College London MA, King’s College London BA (Hons), Queen Mary, University of London Biography I joined the Department of English in 2017, having completed a two-year Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship at University College Dublin. I have a PhD and MA from King’s College London, and a BA from Queen Mary, University of London. Teaching This year, I am teaching on Decadence and the Fin de Siecle, Prose and on the nineteenth-century MA. Research My book, Nineteenth-Century Settler Emigration in British Literature and Art is forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press in 2018. This monograph explores the relationships between text and mobility in the context of nineteenth-century settler emigration. I am in the early stages of a new project on literature and the nineteenth-century opium wars. Publications Recent publications Book Shaikh, F 2018, Nineteenth-Century Settler Emigration in British Literature and Art. Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. <https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-nineteenth-century-settler-emigration-in-british-literature-and-art.html#:~:text=Nineteenth%2DCentury%20Settler%20Emigration%20in%20British%20Literature%20and%20Art%20is,by%20nineteenth%2Dcentury%20settler%20emigration.> View all publications in research portal