Kirstie Blair

Kirstie Blair is the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Chair in English Studies at the University of Stirling. She has published three interdisciplinary monographs on Victorian poetry and poetics, the last of which, Working Verse in Victorian Scotland: Poetry, Press, Community (2019), won the Saltire Society Research Book of the Year and overall Scottish Book of the Year awards. Over a 20+ year career in Victorian studies, she has published numerous articles, book chapters, edited two collections, and served on various editorial boards and boards of learned societies. She was elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2022, and invited to deliver the British Academy Warton Lecture in English Poetry in that year. Most of her publications in the last five years have centred on popular newspaper and periodical culture, and working-class poetry and poetics.