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Janice Allan
Dr Janice Allan
postal addressESPaCH, Crescent House, University of Salford, M5 4WT.
email addressj.m.allan@salford.ac.uk
telephone0161 295-4507
Key Memberships
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Member of School: School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences
From October 2011 to present.
Full Member of Research Centre: Centre for English Literature & Language
From January 2010 to present.
Profile Summary

My primary research and teaching interests are nineteenth-century popular fiction (particularly sensation fiction), constructions of gender and deviance and the interstices between literary and medical discourses.

Key Publications
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Refereed Journal Articles
2010
Dec
Allan, J 2010, ''A "base and spurious thing": reading and deceptive femininity in Ellen Wood's Parkwater (1857)'', Critical Survey, 22(3).
2010
Dec
Allan, J 2010, ''A "base and spurious thing": reading and deceptive femininity in Ellen Wood's Parkwater (1857)' (RAE Submission)', Critical Survey, 22(3).
Book Sections
2012
Jun
Allan, J 2012 ''Sensation Fiction, Parody and Criticism'', in: Andrew Mangham (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Sensation Novel , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England.
2010
Nov
Allan, J 2010 ''Mrs. Robinson's "day-book of iniquity": reading bodies of/and evidence in the context of the 1858 Medical Reform Act'', in: Andrew Mangham and Greta Depledge (eds), The Female Body in Literature and Medicine, Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, England, p.0.
2010
May
Allan, J 2010 ''"Conversing with Monstrosities": evolutionary theory and contemporary responses to the novels of Wilkie Collins', in: Dinah Birch and Mark Llewellyn (eds), Conflict and Difference in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Palgrave, London, England, p.0.
2010
Feb
Allan, J 2010 ''Victorian Fiction and the Canon -- Mapping Writers and their Works'', in: Andrew Maunder (ed.), Teaching Victorian Fiction , Palgrave, London, England, p.0.
Edited Books
2011
Oct
Allan, J 2011, 'The Sensation Novel Sourcebook', Liverpool University Press, forthcoming 2010, Liverpool, England.
Guest Editorships of Journals
2010
Dec
Allan, J 2010, ''Other Sensations'', Critical Survey, 22(3).
Reviews
2009
Apr
Allan, J 2009, 'Kate Summerscale. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House', in: Clues: a Journal of Detection 27:1, Heldref Publications, Washington , United States, pp.0-0.
Key Presence
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Conference Presentations
2012
''Unspeakably Filthy Curiosities: the diaries of Mrs. Robinson', paper delivered at British Association of Victorian Studies, University of Leicester, September 2008.
''Unspeakably Filthy Curiosities: the diaries of Mrs. Robinson', paper delivered at British Association of Victorian Studies, University of Leicester, September 2008.
2012
''Conversing with Monstrosities': evolutionary theory and the critical reception of sensation fiction', paper delivered to British Association of Victorian Studies, University of Liverpook (September 2006).
''Conversing with Monstrosities': evolutionary theory and the critical reception of sensation fiction', paper delivered to British Association of Victorian Studies, University of Liverpook (September 2006).
Consultancy Roles
2012
External Expert on Programme Review of MA by Research, Greenwich University (February 2006).
External Expert on Programme Review of MA by Research, Greenwich University (February 2006).
2012
External Subject Specialist, Validation of MSc Women's Writing, Edgehill University (February 2007).
External Subject Specialist, Validation of MSc Women's Writing, Edgehill University (February 2007).
Invited Papers and Lectures
2012
'Key Note Summary', Wilkie Collins Symposium, University of Sheffield, March 2005
'Key Note Summary', Wilkie Collins Symposium, University of Sheffield, March 2005
2010
May
'Pianos and Pernicious Literature: Class and Infanticide in Ellen Wood's Parkwater' (Victorian Popular Fiction Association, Spring Study Day (London), United Kingdom, May 2010).
Other Research Activity
2012
Co-organiser of the British Association of Victorian Studies Annual Conference, University of Salford (September 2007)
Co-organiser of the British Association of Victorian Studies Annual Conference, University of Salford (September 2007)
2012
Member of the Editorial Board of Clues: a Journal of Detection
Member of the Editorial Board of Clues: a Journal of Detection
2012
Guest Editor of two special issues of Clues: a Journal of Detection devoted to Victorian Crime Fiction (Fall 2006 and Fall 2007)
Guest Editor of two special issues of Clues: a Journal of Detection devoted to Victorian Crime Fiction (Fall 2006 and Fall 2007)