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Lucy Thompson

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 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5118-5138
20172026

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Lucy’s research examines how eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature registers and shapes practices of surveillance, with a particular focus on gender, disability, and the body. Her work explores how institutional, communal, and intimate forms of scrutiny structure social life and cultural expression in the Romantic period, and how literary texts both reproduce and resist regimes of visibility and control.

Her research develops this focus through Critical Disability Studies, tracing how literature engages with shifting ideas of impairment, dependence, and care. She has also published on Jane Austen and Maria Edgeworth, analysing how peer-based observation - gossip, speculation, and social scrutiny - functions as a form of gendered regulation in early nineteenth-century fiction.

She welcomes PhD applications on surveillance, disability, gender, and self-regulation in Romantic and nineteenth-century literature, as well as interdisciplinary projects engaging with medical humanities and cultural history. Current and recent doctoral work includes Gothic literature, fin de siècle fiction, periodical culture, disability studies, and representations of non-human figures.

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  1. SDG 2 - Zero Hunger
    SDG 2 Zero Hunger
  2. SDG 5 - Gender Equality
    SDG 5 Gender Equality
  3. SDG 6 - Clean Water and Sanitation
    SDG 6 Clean Water and Sanitation
  4. SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
    SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
  5. SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
    SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
  6. SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
    SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
  7. SDG 13 - Climate Action
    SDG 13 Climate Action

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