Dr Ellie Reed
Lecturer in English

Summary

I am a Lecturer in English at Brunel University of London. My teaching specialism is twentieth-century and contemporary literature. Broadly, my research focus is domestic women's magazines from the early to mid-twentieth century, within wider literary culture. My current focus is knitting, crochet, and handicrafts more generally within these contexts.

I welcome PhD applications for topics covering early-mid twentieth-century literature and culture, periodicals and print media, gender, class, the middlebrow, modernism, craft history. 

Qualifications

PhD in English literature (2018; University of Roehampton)

MA in Literatures of Modernity (2013; Royal Holloway, University of London)

BA in English literature (2012; University of Roehampton and The Open University)

I am an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Responsibility

I am Programme Lead for Undergraduate English and am closely involved in our outreach programmes.

If you work in a secondary school or sixth form college and would like to hear about our free English and Creative Writing workshops and taster sessions, do get in touch.