The Victorian Diversities Research Network brings togethers researchers, educators, and readers who are responding to calls to ‘undiscipline’ and diversify our field of study.
We aim to recuperate and promote nineteenth-century writers of colour and writers from marginalised communities, and we will develop an inclusive approach to Victorian literary studies by exploring new methodologies for reading the literature of race and empire in commonwealth countries.
The Network will bring together various strands of anti-colonial work from around the globe to challenge the dominant conception of nineteenth-century writing as white writing. It will provide a nexus for colleagues in different countries, disciplines, and professions who can share expertise and experience of decolonising and diversifying.
And, it will engage with local readers and schools to contribute to the development of an inclusive and cohesive society that values multiculturalism by reflecting better the long history of literary diversity within British society.
Victorian Diversities 