Juliette Atkinson

Juliette Atkinson is a Professor of English at University College London, where she specialises in literature of the long nineteenth century. Her research interests include Victorian fiction (especially the work of George Eliot), life-writing (including autobiography, biography, diaries, letters, and travel writing), transnational networks (with a focus on Anglo-French and Anglo-American exchanges), book history, and textual editing. She studied at UCL and the University of Oxford, and her work has been funded by a UCL Graduate Research Scholarship, a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, a New Scholars Award from the Bibliographical Society of America, and a Leverhulme Research Fellowship.

Professor Atkinson is the author of the books Victorian Biography Reconsidered (OUP, 2010) and French Novels and the Victorians (OUP, 2017); she has also edited Silas Marner for Oxford World’s Classics (2017) and introduced and annotated editions of The Mill on the Floss and Jane Eyre, also for Oxford World’s Classics (2015; 2019). The Oxford Handbook of George Eliot, which gathers fifty essays on the novelist and which she is co-editing with Elisha Cohn (Cornell), will appear in 2024, together with her book George Eliot: A Very Short Introduction (OUP). She is currently completing The Oxford History of Life-Writing: The Nineteenth Century (OUP).