Dr Clare Broome Saunders
Senior Tutor, Tutor for Graduates, Tutor for Admissions, Disabilities Officer, Fellow
Dr Broome Saunders has been working with the Visiting Students at Blackfriars since 2014, and became Senior Tutor in September 2018. In addition to her roles at Blackfriars, she teaches and lectures for a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate courses for the Faculty of English at the University of Oxford, in her specialist field of nineteenth-century literature. Her research interests include nineteenth-century women’s poetry, nineteenth-century medievalism, and nineteenth-century women travel writers in Europe.
Dr Broome Saunders was Research Fellow in English at Wolfson College, Oxford from 2007 to 2014, and a Lecturer at St Catherine’s College, Oxford 2017-2022.
She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Select Publications
Books
Women Writers and Nineteenth-Century Medievalism (Palgrave: 2009);
Women, Travel Writing, and Truth (Routledge: 2014);
Louisa Stuart Costello: A 19th Century Literary Life (Palgrave: 2015).
Book Chapters
“count me the drops congealed in one hailstone”: EBB, Dante, and medievalism, in Rereading Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Poet of the Modern Age. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2027.
“Cultural Encounters in George Eliot’s Middlemarch”, in Cultural Encounters: Religious, Literary, Historical. Delaware: Vernon Press, 2026.
“Phoebe Anna Traquair’s Imaginative Medievalism”, in Forgotten Sisters: Overlooked Pre-Raphaelite Women. Delaware: Delaware University Press, 2026.
“Transformative Conversation: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Literary Imagination”, in The Christian Literary Imagination. Delaware: Vernon Press, 2024.
‘“Liege Lady”: Queen Victoria’s political medievalism’, in Medievalism and Reception. Cambridge: D.S.Brewer. 2024.
Further details can be found on her Faculty web page:
https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-clare-broome-saunders#tab-415761