Dr Sophie Franklin

News

• Read Sophie’s latest blogpost on the DOROTHY COFUND website, on how domestic violence has been framed historically as a disease.
• Sophie recently gave a talk about her project on violence and contagion at Durham University, as part of their Affective Experience Lab, on 12th March 2025. You can watch the recorded talk here.
• Read Sophie’s blogpost on BMJ Medical Humanities about her current research project here.
• Research Ireland has spotlighted Sophie’s project, in relation to the DOROTHY MSCA COFUND programme, alongside several other researchers who are working within the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

Brontë-related Events

• ‘Reappraised, Revisited, Reimagined’, with Dr Claire O’Callaghan and Adelle Hay – Brontë Festival of Women’s Writing, Brontë Parsonage Museum & Library, 25 September 2022.
• ‘The Brontës, Revisited, Reappraised, Reimagined’, with Dr Claire O’Callaghan and Adelle Hay – online course at the Rosenbach Library, Philadelphia, U.S, April – June 2022.
• ‘Sundays with Jane Eyre’, with Edward G. Pettit, Rosenbach Library (online), December 2021 and April 2022.
• ‘The Brontës: Reimagined, Reimagined, Revisited’, with Adelle Hay – New Words Festival, Bolton Museum and Library, March 2021.
• ‘Queering the Past: Anne Lister and the Brontës’, with Dr Claire O’Callaghan – ‘Interpreting Anne Lister and the Brontës’ conference, organised by the Brontë Society, October 2019.
• ‘The Years that Shaped Women’, with Drs Juliet Barker, Emma Butcher, and Claire O’Callaghan, Bradford Literature Festival, July 2019.
• Keynote talk, ‘Global Perspectives: New and Emerging Work in Nineteenth-Century Studies’, Durham University, July 2019.
• ‘The “Battle” of the Brontës’, in conversation with Dr Claire O’Callaghan, Books on Tyne: The Newcastle Book Festival, November 2018.
• ‘Charlotte and Emily Brontë’, in conversation with Dr Claire O’Callaghan, Durham Book Festival, October 2018.
• ‘Charlotte and Emily Brontë’, in conversation with Dr Claire O’Callaghan, Rochdale Literature and Ideas Festival, October 2018.
• ‘Charlotte Brontë Revisited: A View from the Twenty-First Century’, in conversation with Dr Helena Kelly, Cuckfield Book Festival, October 2017.
• ‘Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Brontë, and Violence’, The Gaskell Society, London, September 2017.
• ‘Charlotte Brontë Revisited: A View from the Twenty-First Century’, Borderlines Carlisle Book Festival 2016, October 2016.
• ‘Charlotte Brontë Revisited: A View from the Twenty-First Century’, York Explore Library, July 2016.