Dr Asha Hornsby
Research 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 she has published on the subject in The Journal of Victorian Culture and Victorian Review. Her monograph, The Pen and the Scalpel: Vivisection and Late Victorian Culture is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press (est. January 2025).
A second major research strand, supported by a British Academy postdoctoral award (2024-26), concerns global seafaring and disease. She has an article forthcoming in the Review of English Studies which explores nautical metaphors in late-nineteenth century literary culture.
Selected publications
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Open access
'A slashing review is a thing that they like’: vivisection and Victorian literary criticism
Hornsby, A., 29 Jan 2024, In: Journal of Victorian Culture. 29, 1Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Nautical metaphors and late-Victorian literary culture
Hornsby, A., 29 May 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Review of English Studies. Early View, 20 p., hgae036.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Review of Humane Professions: The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876-1914, by Rob Boddice
Hornsby, A., 2023, In: Journal of British Studies. 62, 1Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
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Vivisection
Hornsby, A., 11 Nov 2023, The Palgrave encyclopedia of Victorian women's writing. Scholl, L. & Morris, E. (eds.). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 5 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
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Unfeeling Brutes? The 1875 Royal Commission on Vivisection and the Science of Suffering
Hornsby, A., 2019, In: Victorian Periodicals Review. 45, 1, p. 97-115Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review