Role
Lecturer in English
Qualifications & background
Min has a first degree in English Literature (first: hons.), a MA in Criticism and Theory (with distinction)
and a PHd from the University of Exeter.
Professional membership
British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
Teaching interests
Min teaches eighteenth-century literature, as well as early modern literature in general, and also Romanticism.
She teaches Theory as well, and has been known to teach nineteenth-century literature: for Exeter she ran her own distance learning course on the impact of Darwin on nineteenth-century culture in general. She is happiest, though, in the eighteenth century, where you can't get her to stop rattling on.
Research interests
Min researches in the eighteenth century, with special interests in periodicals and print culture, in satire, and in criticism. Her monograph, published by Ashgate in 2008, is a study of The Midwife, Christopher Smart's irreverent magazine of 1750-1753, in which the poet takes on the persona of a critical and opinionated elderly lady called Mrs Mary Midnight.
She is also, though, interested in the tradition of learned wit, and in how it moves through the generations of early modern writers: at present she is looking hard at Coleridge with this in mind. Her long term research also covers a wider field, since she is looking into the phenomenon of how words and texts get personified, and discussed as though they were human, from classical Greece to the present day.
UoP Research group membership
English and Creative Writing
