Emily Barber

Emily Barber is a first-year Ph.D. student and Notebaert Premier Fellow at the University of Notre Dame. She focuses on how religion and the environment are represented and imagined by Romantic and Victorian writers, especially in Gothic literature. Such interests have led her to ponder how aesthetic theory, anachronism, cultural memory, nostalgia, and colonialism have influenced literary works in Britain.

Emily intends to explore how the Gothic, with all its fears of the past returning to haunt the present, is resurrected and re-interpreted in the twentieth- and twenty-first century imagination, both in Britain and beyond.

Educational Background: Honours B.A. University of Toronto, M.A. McGill University.