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Email: j.f.pizzo@soton.ac.uk
Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF (View in Google Maps)
Dr Pizzo's current research focuses on the relationship between literary atmospheres (fog, mist, rain and haze) and characterisation in the Victorian novel. She is also editing a new Norton Critical Edition of Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd (1874).
Dr Pizzo convenes undergraduate and postgraduate modules including: 'The Novel', 'Fantasists, Fanatics, and Reformers: British Literature in the Nineteenth Century', 'The Origins of Climate Crisis: Ecology in Victorian Literature' and 'Approaches to the Long Nineteenth Century'. She also supervises a range of undergraduate, masters, and doctoral students focusing on nineteenth-century literature and culture.
Dr Justine Pizzo is Lecturer in British Literature, 1837 to 1939. She specialises in the Victorian period with a particular emphasis on the novel, female characterisation, and intersections of literature and climate. In addition to working on a monograph provisionally titled The Character of Climate: Women and Atmosphere in Victorian Fiction, she has published and edited research on the work of Charlotte Brontë and other nineteenth- and early twentieth-century novelists (including Charles Dickens, Dorothy Richardson, and Virginia Woolf). Her teaching and research interests also focus on the work of influential and sometimes lesser-known women writers.