Professor Laurel Brake
Research Fellow
Laurel Brake is Professor Emerita of English Literature and Print Culture at Birkbeck, University of London. Her main research interests are in nineteenth-century literature, book and media history, and gender.
Research
Professor Brake publishes articles, writes and edits books, has co-edited a dictionary (DNCJ: Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism), and collaborated on a free digital edition of periodicals and newspapers (Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition www.ncse.ac.uk). Books include Subjugated Knowledges, Walter Pater, and co-edited volumes on W T Stead and on the News of the World. Her current projects are Ink Work (a biography of Walter and Clara Pater), and an edition of Walter Pater’s selected journalism.