ProfessorPorscha Fermanis

Porscha's research interests lie in the long nineteenth century, including:

• Romantic poetry and poetics
• global Romanticism and Victorianism
• Romantic historicism and historical fiction
• philosophy of history
• periodical studies

Aside from these ongoing research interests, Porscha's more recent areas of interest include:

• settler colonialism, empire, and imperialism in the long nineteenth century
• settler fiction from colonial Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa
• colonial book history, the history of reading, and knowledge formation
• southern theory, hemispheric methods, and nineteenth-century conceptions of 'southness'
• critical regionalism
• Anglophone writing in Southeast Asia

She welcomes PhD candidates in any of these areas.