Dr Karin Koehler

Lecturer in 19th Century Literature

Contact info

My research and teaching focus on nineteenth-century literature, with particular emphasis on the relationships between literary culture and media, technologies, and infrastructures of communication.

 

Email: k.koehler@bangor.ac.uk

Phone: (0124838)2113

Location: Room 303, New Arts Building, College Road, Bangor University, LL57 2DG

 

I welcome PhD proposals in the following subject areas: Victorian literature and culture; Neo-Victorian literature; letters in literature and epistolary writing; media, networks, and technologies of communication in literature; infrastructure and literature; the life and work of Thomas Hardy.

  1. Article › Research › Peer-reviewed
  2. Published

    "Essentially separated in spite of all uniting factors": Thomas Hardy and the Community of Letter Writers

    Koehler, K., Mar 2015, In: Victorian Review. 41, 1, p. 125-142 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  3. Published

    A Tale of Two Bridges: The Poetry and Politics of Infrastructure in Nineteenth-Century Wales

    Koehler, K., Oct 2021, In: Journal of Victorian Culture. 26, 4, p. 499-518

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  4. Published

    Immaterial Correspondence: Letters, Bodies, and Desire in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette

    Koehler, K., Mar 2018, In: Brontë Studies. 43, 2, p. 136-146

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  5. Published

    Late-Victorian Polemics about Sexual Knowledge in Thomas Hardy and Sarah Grand

    Koehler, K., Jan 2020, In: English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920. 63, 2, p. 211-233

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  6. Published

    Valentines and the Victorian Imagination: Mary Barton and Far from the Madding Crowd

    Koehler, K., Jun 2017, In: Victorian Literature and Culture. 45, 2, p. 395-412

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  7. Published

    ‘“I was not know for sure what be the Queen, Evan; was you?”’: Fictions of Development in Amy Dillwyn’s The Rebecca Rioter (1880)

    Koehler, K., 8 Nov 2023, In: 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  8. Chapter › Research › Not peer-reviewed
  9. Published

    'A husband without suspicions does not intercept his wife's letters': Letters, Privacy and Gender in the Victorian Novel

    Koehler, K., 31 Aug 2015, Private and Public Voices: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Letters and Letter-Writing. Koehler, K. & McDonald-Miranda, K. (eds.). Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, p. 155-182 27 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  10. Chapter › Research › Peer-reviewed
  11. Published

    "Imaginative Sentiment": Love, Letters, and Literacy in Thomas Hardy’s Shorter Fiction

    Koehler, K., 9 Nov 2016, Thomas Hardy's Short Stories: New Perspectives. Berning Schaefer, J. & Craft Brownson, S. (eds.). 1st ed. Abingdon: Routledge, p. 84-102 (The Nineteenth Century Series).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

  12. Published

    '"[L]etters must increase": Reading and Writing the Post Office as a Literary Institution'

    Koehler, K., Jul 2022, Institutions of Literature, 1700-1900: The Development of Literary Culture and Production. Mee, J. & Sangster, M. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, p. 234-254 21 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

  13. Published

    Judging by the Hand: Handwriting and Character in Victorian Literary Culture

    Koehler, K., 1 Dec 2018, Victorian Judgement. Gregory, J. R., Bautz, A. & Grey, D. (eds.). Routledge

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

  14. Article › Research
  15. Published

    Thomas Hardy: Annotated Bibliography

    Koehler, K., 26 Jun 2019, Oxford Bibliographies.

    Research output: Contribution to specialist publicationArticle

  16. Book › Research › Not peer-reviewed
  17. Private and Public Voices: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Letters and Letter-Writing

    Koehler, K. (ed.) & McDonald-Miranda, K. (ed.), 31 Aug 2015, Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press. 255 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportBook

  18. Book › Research › Peer-reviewed
  19. Thomas Hardy and Victorian Communication: Letters, Telegrams, and Postal Systems

    Koehler, K., 6 Jun 2016, London: Palgrave Macmillan. 236 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportBookpeer-review