Dr Asha Hornsby

Research Fellow

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 1878

Email

arh37@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

Dr Hornsby's research scrutinises the interplay between scientific medicine, public health anxieties, and nineteenth-century culture. One key research strand concerns vivisection, and a second concerns global seafaring and disease; both have been supported by two major grants: an AHRC Studentship (2015-18) and a British Academy Postdoctoral Award (2024-26). She has published research articles in The Journal of Victorian Culture and Victorian Review. Her monograph, The Pen and the Scalpel: Vivisection and Late Victorian Culture, is under full external review with Cambridge University Press.

Selected publications

• Open access

  'A slashing review is a thing that they like’: vivisection and Victorian literary criticism

  Hornsby, A., 29 Jan 2024, In: Journal of Victorian Culture. 29, 1

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Review of Humane Professions: The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876-1914, by Rob Boddice

  Hornsby, A., 2023, In: Journal of British Studies. 62, 1

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

• Vivisection

  Hornsby, A., 11 Nov 2023, The Palgrave encyclopedia of Victorian women's writing. Scholl, L. & Morris, E. (eds.). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 5 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

• Unfeeling Brutes? The 1875 Royal Commission on Vivisection and the Science of Suffering

  Hornsby, A., 2019, In: Victorian Periodicals Review. 45, 1, p. 97-115

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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