9 OCT 2021 · Look around. What do you see? How do the Victorians continue to influence our lives, our society, our entertainment? Join Emma Catan as we explore the legacy of the Victorians. Where fiction becomes fact. This episode is the series trailer! Join me as I briefly explain why I came up with this podcast, as a way to navigate my learning journey as a PhD researcher in neo-Victorian literature. Credits: Episode Writer, Editor and Producer: Emma Catan Music: Burning Steaks (by Stationary Sign) - obtained via EpidemicSound Special thanks go to Julia Ditter (Northumbria University) Check us out at the following social media pages and websites! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/victorianlegaciespodcast Twitter: @victorianlegac1 Instagram: @victorianlegaciespodcast Website: https://emmacatan.wordpress.com/victorian-legacies-podcast/ Email: victorianlegacies@gmail.com

16 OCT 2021 · In this episode I discuss my research interests; what led me into research and neo-Victorian studies. I talk about my PhD project, the texts I am working with, and what thoughts I have about the influence of the nineteenth century. Episode Credits: Episode Writer, Editor and Producer: Emma Catan Music: Burning Steaks (by Stationary Sign) - obtained via EpidemicSound Check us out at the following social media pages and websites! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/victorianlegaciespodcast Twitter: @victorianlegac1 Instagram: @victorianlegaciespodcast Website: https://emmacatan.wordpress.com/victorian-legacies-podcast/ Email: victorianlegacies@gmail.com

23 OCT 2021 · In this episode I'm joined by Stephanie Farnsworth, who researches into mutants and body horror in video games. We'll discuss her research and the influences of the 19th century (particularly, the Gothic) in creative works such as video games. About my guest: Stephanie Farnsworth is a PhD candidate at the University of Sunderland, and her research focuses on examining 'mutants' and body horror in video games. While her work focuses on video games which often are set in futuristic societies, the narratives are heavily rooted in Gothic tradition and classic stories such as Frankenstein, and Jekyll and Hyde. She is also the founder of MultiPlay - an academic network for promoting a multidisciplinary approach to video games studies. For more information on Steph's work, check out the links and details below: https://mutanttheory.com/ https://multiplaynetwork.org/ Episode Credits: Episode Writer, Editor and Producer: Emma Catan Music: Burning Steaks (by Stationary Sign) - obtained via EpidemicSound Check us out at the following social media pages and websites! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/victorianlegaciespodcast Twitter: @victorianlegac1 Instagram: @victorianlegaciespodcast Website: https://emmacatan.wordpress.com/victorian-legacies-podcast/ Email: victorianlegacies@gmail.com

30 OCT 2021 · In this episode I'm joined by Paulus Linnaeus, a graphic novellist who has published The Demonhuntress series. We discuss how his incredible experiences led him to change career, and how he developed The Demonhuntress series. Our chat centres on his recent publications which centred around Jack the Ripper, as well as the upcoming second full-length volume of the series, which features the Orient Express, and the Hope Diamond. About my guest: Former professor, doctor, parachutist, military instructor, scuba diver, writer, poet, and musician, who has travelled and lived throughout the world, Paulus has lived several lives and thus brings this broad perspective of life into his stories. For more information on Paulus' work, check out the links and details below: https://thedemonhuntress.com/ Instagram: alexisthedemonhuntress Episode Credits: Episode Writer, Editor and Producer: Emma Catan Music: Burning Steaks (by Stationary Sign) - obtained via EpidemicSound Check us out at the following social media pages and websites! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/victorianlegaciespodcast Twitter: @victorianlegac1 Instagram: @victorianlegaciespodcast Website: https://emmacatan.wordpress.com/victorian-legacies-podcast/ Email: victorianlegacies@gmail.com

6 NOV 2021 · In this episode I'm joined by Dr Helen Davies, where we discuss her previous work on neo-Victorianism and freakery, her current project on Down's Syndrome and neo-Victorianism, and how neo-Victorianism has interested her (and her take on why we're still influenced by the 19th century). TRIGGER WARNING: contains conversation about disabilities, including past (derogatory) terminology for people with disabilities. About my guest: Dr Helen Davies is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Wolverhampton. She is the author of Gender and Ventriloquism in Victorian and Neo-Victorian Fiction (2012) and Neo-Victorian Freakery (2015). She’s published widely on gender, sexuality, and disability in neo-Victorianism, and is currently writing a book about Down syndrome in neo-Victorianism. For more information on Helen's work, check out the links and details below: Twitter: @DrHDavies University Email: h.davies6@wlv.ac.uk Check out Helen's recommended sources, which she mentioned in our episode: Professor Michael Bérubé -The Secret Life of Stories Karen Charlton, The Sculthorpe Murder Amanda Taylor, Dangerous Waves. BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Charles Dickens' Barnaby Roach Episode Credits: Episode Writer, Editor and Producer: Emma Catan Music: Burning Steaks (by Stationary Sign) - obtained via EpidemicSound Check us out at the following social media pages and websites! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/victorianlegaciespodcast Twitter: @victorianlegac1 Instagram: @victorianlegaciespodcast Website: https://emmacatan.wordpress.com/victorian-legacies-podcast/ Email: victorianlegacies@gmail.com

13 NOV 2021 · In this episode I'm joined by Brontë Schiltz, where we discuss her interest in the associations between illness and queer experience in Victorian fiction such as Vernon Lee's work, and the explorations of economics in the penny dreadful, The String of Pearls and its adaptations. About my guest: Brontë has a BA in English and Creative Writing from Royal Holloway, University of London, and an MA in English Studies: The Gothic from Manchester Metropolitan University. Her work includes academic research, journalism, creative non-fiction, short fiction, and theatre. She researches research associations between illness and queer experience in Victorian fiction, focusing particularly on Vernon Lee, and also explorations of economics in The String of Pearls and its adaptations For more information on Brontë's work, check out the links and details below: https://bronteschiltz.squarespace.com/ Twitter: @BronteSchiltz Check out Brontë's recommended sources, which she mentioned in our episode: The String of Pearls (and its adaptations!) Works by Vernon Lee (especially A Wicked Voice) Jeanette Winterson - Frankisstein Sarah Waters' novels Mary Shelley - Frankenstein Episode Credits: Episode Writer, Editor and Producer: Emma Catan Music: Burning Steaks (by Stationary Sign) - obtained via EpidemicSound Check us out at the following social media pages and websites! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/victorianlegaciespodcast Twitter: @victorianlegac1 Instagram: @victorianlegaciespodcast Website: https://emmacatan.wordpress.com/victorian-legacies-podcast/ Email: victorianlegacies@gmail.com

17 NOV 2021 · In this episode I'm joined by Suzie Lennox, where we discuss her extensive research into the practice of body snatching. She'll tell us about prevention methods, some intriguing tales and escapades of the 'resurrection men', and why she continues to be fascinated by this 'taboo' subject. TRIGGER WARNING: this episode deals with issues around death, graveyards and exhumation so be prepared! About my guest: Suzie studied History at Teesside University and completed her Master’s degree in Archive Administration in 2011 before leaving the sector in 2015. She has been researching all aspects of body snatching for over fifteen years, after writing about the legal implications of the trade for her dissertation at university. Her book ‘Bodysnatchers: Digging Up The Untold Story of Britain’s Resurrection Men’ was published by Pen & Sword in 2016. For more information on Suzie's work, check out the links and details below: https://diggingup1800.com Twitter: @DiggingUp1800 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/diggingup1800 Check out Suzie's recommended sources, which she mentioned in our episode: Ruth Richardson - Death, Dissectiion and the Destitute Works by Martin Fido and Hubert Cole (reading list available on Suzie's website) Suzie's book can be found at: https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Bodysnatchers-Digging-Up-The-Untold-Stories-of-Britains-Resurrection-Men-Kindle/p/12635 Episode Credits: Episode Writer, Editor and Producer: Emma Catan Music: Burning Steaks (by Stationary Sign) - obtained via EpidemicSound Check us out at the following social media pages and websites! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/victorianlegaciespodcast Twitter: @victorianlegac1 Instagram: @victorianlegaciespodcast Website: https://emmacatan.wordpress.com/victorian-legacies-podcast/ Email: victorianlegacies@gmail.com

27 NOV 2021 · In this episode I'm joined by Rachel M Friars, where we discuss her research into queer Neo-Victorian works. We talk about diaries and correspondence and how this provides an interesting insight into queer identities (such as Anne Lister), and how neo-Victorianism reflects contemporary anxieties, whilst considering the enduring legacies of the Victorian. About my guest: Rachel is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of English Language and Literature at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. Her current work centers on neo-Victorianism and nineteenth-century lesbian literature and history, with secondary research interests in life writing, historical fiction, true crime, popular culture, and the Gothic. Her work has recently appeared in Neo-Victorian Madness: Rediagnosing Nineteenth-Century Mental Illness in Literature and Other Media (Palgrave Macmillan 2020) and in The Journal of Neo-Victorian Studies (2020). She has forthcoming articles in Gothic Mash-Ups: Hybridity, Appropriation, and Intertextuality in Gothic Storytelling (Lexington Books 2021) and in Crime Studies Journal (2022). She is a reviewer for The Lesbrary, the co-editor-in-chief of True Crime Index, and an Associate Editor and Social Media Coordinator for PopMeC Research Collective. Rachel is co-editor-in-chief of the international literary journal, The Lamp, and regularly publishes her own short fiction and poetry. For more information on Rachel's work, check out the links and details below: https://lampjournal.com/ https://truecrimeindex.ca/ https://popmec.hypotheses.org/ Twitter: @RachelMFriars Check out Rachel's recommended sources, which she mentioned in our episode: Historical Fictions Research Network - https://historicalfictionsresearch.org/ Anno Dracula series - Kim Newman Plain Bad Heroines - Emily M Danforth The Once and Future Witches - Alix E Harrow The Doll Factory - Elizabeth Macneal A Madness So Discreet - Mindy McGuinness Girl in a Blue Dress - Gaynor Arnold A Dowry of Blood - S T Gibson Episode Credits: Episode Writer, Editor and Producer: Emma Catan Music: Burning Steaks (by Stationary Sign) - obtained via EpidemicSound Check us out at the following social media pages and websites! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/victorianlegaciespodcast Twitter: @victorianlegac1 Instagram: @victorianlegaciespodcast Website: https://emmacatan.wordpress.com/victorian-legacies-podcast/ Email: victorianlegacies@gmail.com

4 DEC 2021 · In this episode I'm joined by Dr Dany van Dam, where we discuss her research into Neo-Victorian works and postcolonial approaches. We talk about how her research interests developed, the Western-centric focus of the field, and how we can consider new ways to broaden the field. About my guest: Dany has degrees in English and History, and a research MA degree in Literary Studies from Leiden University (the Netherlands). In 2016 she gained her PhD in English Literature from Cardiff University, entitled Making It Right? Writing the Other in Postcolonial Neo-Victorianism. She is the European representative of the British Association for Victorian Studies, and has recently begun a three-year lectureship at Leiden University (where, among other things, she will be teaching contemporary American fiction, of all things). She has also worked at Utrecht University, the Dutch Open University, the University of Amsterdam, at VU Amsterdam, and now at Leiden). She has mainly taught nineteenth-century literature, postcolonial/world literature, and skills courses, though she has also taught a seminar group on medieval and early-modern literature. She has articles published in Neo-Victorian Studies (on sexual and racial cross-dressing), Partial Answers (on Gail Jones' Sixty Lights) and a co-authored article coming out this year in the European Journal of English Studies. In a few months, she also has a chapter coming out in an essay collection on Neo-Victorian Things. For more information on Dany's work, check out the links and details below: https://h.d.j.van.dam@hum.leidenuniv.nl Twitter: @HDJvanDam Check out Dany's recommended sources, which she mentioned in our episode: Minae Mizumura - A True Novel Zakes Mda - Heart of Redness Jolien Janzing - Charlotte Bronte's Secret Love (The Master) Barbara Ewing - The Petticoat Men Works by HG Wells, Amitav Ghosh, Kunal Basu Episode Credits: Episode Writer, Editor and Producer: Emma Catan Music: Burning Steaks (by Stationary Sign) - obtained via EpidemicSound Check us out at the following social media pages and websites! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/victorianlegaciespodcast Twitter: @victorianlegac1 Instagram: @victorianlegaciespodcast Website: https://emmacatan.wordpress.com/victorian-legacies-podcast/ Email: victorianlegacies@gmail.com

11 DEC 2021 · Episode 9 - Emily Gallagher - Representations of Victorian Women's Dress In this episode I'm joined by Emily, where we discuss her research into the history and representation of Victorian women's dress post-1901. We chat about the ways in which dress and dress objects are preserved and how this has implications for certain narratives of dress - for example, understanding what working-class women wore, and how our understanding of that period can be influenced. About my guest: Emily Gallagher is a PhD candidate at Birkbeck, University of London, researching the histories and representations of Victorian women’s dress since 1901. Central to this research is the analysis of how popular images of Victorian women’s material and personal lives have been influenced by constructed feminine ‘sartorial-Victorianisms’, particularly in museum collections and displays. In 2020, Emily conducted a never-before-done survey of Victorian and Edwardian working-class dress objects in England’s museums, forming the basis of her master’s research which examined the ways in which the objects have been preserved and interpreted. Emily’s research interests include museology, the Victorians in the 20th and 21st centuries, Victorian material culture, art, photography, and dress. For more information on Emily's work, check out the links and details below: Twitter: @emilymayga Episode Credits: Episode Writer, Editor and Producer: Emma Catan Music: Burning Steaks (by Stationary Sign) - obtained via EpidemicSound Check us out at the following social media pages and websites! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/victorianlegaciespodcast Twitter: @victorianlegac1 Instagram: @victorianlegaciespodcast Website: https://emmacatan.wordpress.com/victorian-legacies-podcast/ Email: victorianlegacies@gmail.com