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Dr Anna Gasperini

BA, MA, PhD

Lecturer
Children's Studies
CASSCS
University of Galway
E: anna.gasperini@universityofgalway.ie

Dr Anna Gasperini is Lecturer in Children's Literature and Culture at the University of Galway, Ireland. She received her PhD in English from the University of Galway in 2017 with a thesis on dissection and bodily integrity anxieties in Victorian popular fiction, which became her first monograph, Nineteenth Century Popular Fiction, Medicine, and Anatomy - The Victorian Penny Blood and the 1832 Anatomy Act (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). From 2019 to 2021, she was Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy, where she developed FED - Feeding, Educating, Dieting: A Transnational Approach to Nutrition Discourses in Children's Narratives (Britain and Italy, 1850-1900). In 2022, she was awarded an IRC Starting Laureate Award to develop MILC - MedIcal Literature and Communication about Child health (1850-1914) at the University of Galway. Dr Gasperini¿s research interest cover children's literature and culture; child health history and culture; C19th literature and culture; food studies; body theory; and discourse theory. She is especially interested in literary research devoted to understanding issues of health related to underprivileged, exposed, and/or powerless groups, mainly the poor and children/young people

Children's literature and culture; child health history and culture; C19th literature and culture; food studies; body theory; discourse theory

	Project	Start Date	End Date
	MILC - MedIcal Literature and Communication about Child health (1850-1914)	01-SEP-22	31-AUG-26
	FED - Feeding, Educating, Dieting: A Transnational Approach to Nutrition Discourses in Children¿s Narratives (Britain and Italy, 1850-1900)	01-JUL-19	30-SEP-21

	Researcher Name	Project	Role	Funding Body
	Maelle Leroux	MILC	Postdoctoral Researcher	Irish Research Council (IRC)
	Marco Omes	MILC	Postdoctoral Researcher	Irish Research Council (IRC)

	Year	Publication
	(2022)	'Children¿s Literature, Food, and Identity in Times of Crisis and Change: A Literary-Historical Approach' Gasperini, Anna (2022) 'Children¿s Literature, Food, and Identity in Times of Crisis and Change: A Literary-Historical Approach'. Childhood in the Past, 15 (2) [DOI] [Details]
	(2022)	'Little Precossi, Stunted Becky: A Comparative Analysis of Child Hunger and National Body Health Discourses in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Children¿s Literature in Italian and English' Gasperini, Anna (2022) 'Little Precossi, Stunted Becky: A Comparative Analysis of Child Hunger and National Body Health Discourses in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Children¿s Literature in Italian and English'. MLO - Modern Languages Open, 1 (2) [DOI] [Details]
	(2022)	'The `Gluttonous Child¿ Narrative in Italy and Britain: A Transnational Analysis' Gasperini, Anna (2022) 'The `Gluttonous Child¿ Narrative in Italy and Britain: A Transnational Analysis'. Journal Of Victorian Culture, [DOI] [Details]
	(2020)	'`I know I'm fatter¿: hunger and bodily awareness in Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden' Gasperini, Anna (2020) '`I know I'm fatter¿: hunger and bodily awareness in Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden'. Rhesis ¿ International Journal of Linguistics, Philology and Literature, 11 (2) [Details]

	Year	Publication
	(2019)	Nineteenth Century Popular Fiction, Medicine and Anatomy -The Victorian Penny Blood and the 1832 Anatomy Act. Anna Gasperini (2019) Nineteenth Century Popular Fiction, Medicine and Anatomy -The Victorian Penny Blood and the 1832 Anatomy Act. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. [Details]

	Year	Publication
	(2019)	'`Nicely boiled and scraped¿: Medicine, radicalism, and the ¿useful body¿ in a Lloyd penny blood' Gasperini, Anna (2019) '`Nicely boiled and scraped¿: Medicine, radicalism, and the ¿useful body¿ in a Lloyd penny blood' In: Edward Lloyd and his World: Popular Fiction, Politics and the Press in Victorian Britain. New York: Routledge. [DOI] [Details]
	(2019)	'Nutrire l¿amicizia tra studiosi: cibo, Europa e ricerca interdisciplinare' Gasperini, Anna (2019) 'Nutrire l¿amicizia tra studiosi: cibo, Europa e ricerca interdisciplinare' In: Racconti di amicizia: scambi, adattamenti, letteratura per l¿infanzia e oltre. Naples: Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa. [Details]
	(2018)	'Negotiating wonders: Medical-triggered redefinitions of humanity in popular fiction' Gasperini, Anna (2018) 'Negotiating wonders: Medical-triggered redefinitions of humanity in popular fiction' In: Medicine, Health, and Being Human. :121-136 New York and London: Routledge. [Details]
	(2018)	'Varney the Vampyre; or: the Feast of Blood¿ entry; ¿Penny Dreadful¿ entry' Gasperini, Anna (2018) 'Varney the Vampyre; or: the Feast of Blood¿ entry; ¿Penny Dreadful¿ entry' In: Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction. Jefferson: McFarland. [Details]

	Year	Publication
	(2016)	Media and Print Culture Consumption in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Victorian Reading Experience. Rooney, Paul; Gasperini, Anna (Ed.). (2016) Media and Print Culture Consumption in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Victorian Reading Experience Media and Print Culture Consumption in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Victorian Reading Experience. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. [Details]