Emily MCCONKEY
Victorian poetry; classical reception; Ovidian reception; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; women's writing; Pre-Raphaelite poetry and art; Christina Rossetti; poetry and music
Emily McConkey is a PhD student in the Department of English at ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ. Her SSHRC-funded research explores the reception of Ovid in the Victorian period, mainly focused on his readership and reception among women.
M.A. University of Ottawa, 2021
B.A. (Hons.) University of Ottawa, 2019
Articles and Reviews
βThe Gorgon as Guardian: Evelyn de Morganβs Medusa Shield.β The Pre-Raphaelite Society Review, special issue, Autumn 2022.
βChristina Rossetti: Poetry, Ecology, Faith by Emma Mason.β Journal of Religion & Literature, issue 53.2, Winter 2022.
Public Scholarship
ΜύWhat, Like Itβs Hard? Podcast,
2021.
- Canada Graduate Scholarship β Doctoral, 2022β2025
- Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 2020β2021
- Vera Pauline Morrison Scholarship, for academic merit, 2019
- Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship, 2019β2020