Lecturer in English Literature
Hazel Mackenzie was educated at the Universities of Glasgow and York, and was a guest lecturer at the University of Strathclyde. She worked in academic publishing for three years before being appointed as Senior Editor on the Leverhulme-funded Dickens Journals Online project at Buckingham in 2011. She is now a Lecturer in English Literature in the Department.
Qualifications
- MA, English Literature and History, University of Glasgow
- MA, Modern Literature and Culture, University of York
- PhD, University of York
Teaching Expertise
- Victorian Literature and Culture
- 20th-century Literature
- Life-writing in the 19th and 20th century
Research Interests
- Periodical literature in the mid-19th century
- The journalism of Charles Dickens, George Eliot, W. M. Thackeray, and Anthony Trollope
Research Supervision
Hazel has successfully supervised PhD projects on Pre-Raphaelite painter and writer Charles Collins and Charlotte and Branwell Brontë’s juvenilia. Current projects include Charles Dickens’s reading, African-American women’s writing and neo-slave narratives, the literary activism of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, representations of the hag in Margaret Atwood and Carol Ann Duffy and the limericks of Edward Lear and Edward Gorey.
External Roles
- Contributor to Dickens A Tale of Two Cities Reading Blog: http://dickensataleoftwocities.wordpress.com/
Contact Details
- Tel: +44 (0)1280 820355
Selected Publications
- Mackenzie, Hazel (2018) Journalism and Correspondence. In: Oxford Handbook of Dickens. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 9780198743415Mackenzie, Hazel (2015) Madmen, Invalids and Drunks: Frail Bodies, Fractured Minds and Fragmented Authority in Anthony Trollope’s “An Editor’s Tales”. Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature (128). pp. 187-203. ISSN 0042-5192
- Mackenzie, Hazel (2014) A Dialogue of Forms: The Display of Thinking in George Eliot’s ‘Poetry and Prose, From the Notebook of an Eccentric’ and Impressions of Theophrastus Such. Prose Studies, 36 (2). pp. 117-129. ISSN 0144-0357
- Mackenzie, Hazel (2014) The Discipline of Sympathy and the Limits of Omniscience in Nineteenth-Century Journalism. Critical Survey, 26 (2). pp. 53-72. ISSN 0011-1570