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Erin Vandenberg

Erin Vandenberg
Contact Information
Email address: 
erin.vandenberg [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Stream: 
Literature
Specialization by geographical area: 
Great Britain
Transatlantic
Specialization by time period: 
19th-Century
Victorian
Area(s): 
Aesthetics
Genre Studies
History & Theory of the Novel
Post/Anti/Decolonial Studies
Areas of interest: 

Victorian literature; sensation fiction; sensory studies; food studies; Victorian culture; mystery fiction

Biography: 

Erin Vandenberg joined 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµâ€™s English PhD program in 2025. She has completed an undergraduate degree in English and History at Queen’s University and a master’s degree at Trinity College, Dublin. Her master’s dissertation focused on the role of G. K. Chesterton’s Father Brown stories as rejections of the cold, scientific detectives in nineteenth-century mystery fiction (looking primarily at the works of Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar Allan Poe). She is conducting her PhD research on the roles of taste and consumption in Victorian sensation novels, with a focus on imperialist attitudes towards foreign foods and modes of eating.

Degree(s): 

Archie Malloch Fellowship, 2025
Queen’s University Dean’s Honours List, 2019-2022
Maureen Mogan Scholarship in English, 2020
Barbara Crook Scholarship in English, 2019
Queen’s Excellence Scholarship, 2018

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