Dr Asha  Hornsby

Dr Asha Hornsby

Research Fellow

Researcher profile

Phone
+44 (0)1334 46 1878
Email
arh37@st-andrews.ac.uk
Office
Room 102
Location
Beethoven Lodge

 

Biography

After gaining her undergraduate degree in English & History and her masters in English Literary Studies at the Universities of Exeter and Durham, Asha completed her PhD at UCL. Following a stint as a visiting research fellow at UCL's Institute of Advanced Studies, she taught at the Universities of Nottingham and St Andrews. She returned to the School of English in 2024 as a British Academy postdoctoral fellow.

Research areas

Dr Hornsby's research scrutinises the interplay between scientific medicine, public health anxieties, and nineteenth-century literary culture. One key research strand concerns animal experimentation, and her monograph Vivisection and Late-Victorian Literary Culture (Cambridge: CUP, 2025) is the first sustained literary-critical study of the topic. She has also published related research in the Victorian Review and the Journal of Victorian Culture.

A second major research strand, supported by the British Academy (2024-26), concerns global seafaring and disease. Her article, published in the Review of English Studies, explores nautical metaphors in late-nineteenth century literary culture, and she is preparing a chapter for an edited collection about Scottish whaling surgeons and the Shetland Isles. Her second monograph Contagious Crossings: how marine medicine made waves in Victorian culture is in progress.

Selected publications

 

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