Accepting applications from PhD students.
Email: m.p.kerr@soton.ac.uk
Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF (View in Google Maps)
Matt Kerr is Lecturer in British Literature from 1837 to 1939. Before joining Southampton in 2015, he taught at the University of Oxford, where he also completed his doctorate. Matt is a specialist in Victorian literature, with an interest in the blue humanities. He is the author of The Victorian Novel and the Problems of Marine Language: All at Sea (Oxford University Press, 2022) and co-editor of Coastal Cultures of the Long Nineteenth Century (Edinburgh University Press, 2018; paperback, 2020). New projects include a study of literature and marine waste in the nineteenth century, and a critical edition of Captain Frederick Marryat’s novel Mr Midshipman Easy. Matt is from Vancouver, Canada.