Telephone: 020 7911 5000
Email: A.Witchard@wmin.ac.uk
Postal: University of Westminster, Department of English, Linguistics and Cultural Studies,
32-38 Wells Street,
London, W1T 3UW
Section: English Literature

Anne Witchard was educated at the University of North London (BA Hons in English 1997) and Birkbeck College (PhD in English 2003), and lectures in nineteenth and twentieth-century literature and culture at Westminster.
 
Her research and teaching interests are in Gothic, the Fin de Siècle, London Studies and Modernism. She is currently working on a book project Lao She, London and China’s Literary Revolution for HKUP and two other  projects: A Forbidden Passion: China and the Gothic Imagination, is an examination of the role of chinoiserie in the modern construction of the Gothic, and The Modernist Muse: Women in the Artist’s Studio 1890-1914 which examines the innovations of modernist women, both as models and artists, roles which in many cases were simultaneous.
 

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Thomas Burke’s Dark Chinoiserie: Limehouse Nights and the Queer Spell of Chinatown (Ashgate Publishing, 2009)

Edited Collections

London Gothic: Place, Space and the Gothic Imagination (with Lawrence Phillips) (London: Continuum, 2010)

Journal Articles

‘Aspects of Literary Limehouse: Thomas Burke and the “Glamorous Shame” of Chinatown’, Literary London: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Representation of London 2:2 (September 2004)
 
‘Thomas Burke, the “Laureate of Limehouse” : A New Biographical Outline’, English Literature in Transition (1880-1920) 48:2 (January 2005)
 
‘A Threepenny Omnibus Ticket to Limeyhousey Causeyway: Fictional Sojourns in Chinatown’, Comparative Critical Studies (October 2007)
 

Book Chapters

‘Thomas Burke: “Son of London”’, in Lawrence Phillips (ed.), A Mighty Mass of Brick and Smoke: Victorian and Edwardian Representations of London (Rodopi Press, 2007)
 
‘Bloomsbury, Limehouse and Piccadilly: A Chinese Sojourn in London’, in Pallavi Rastogi and Jocelyn Stitt (eds), Before Windrush: Recovering a Black and Asian Literary Heritage within Britain, 1786-1938 (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008)
 
‘Chinoiserie Wonderlands of the Fin-de-Siècle: Twinkletoes in Chinatown’, in Cris Hollingsworth (ed.), Alice Beyond Wonderland: Essays for the Twenty-first Century  (Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 2009)

‘Curious Kisses: the Chinatown fantasies of Thomas Burke’ in Ruth Mayer and Vanessa Kunnemann (eds), Chinatowns. Myths and Realities of an Urban Phenomenon in the United States and Europe (forthcoming Routledge, 2011)
 
‘Chu Chin Chow and Chinatown: London’s Nightlife and World War One’, in Stacy Gillis (ed.), The Cultural Afterlife of World War One (currently under review, Manchester University Press)
 

Reviews

Guest Editor with Steven Barfield, 'London and the Camden Town Group', in Literary London: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Representation of London 8:1 (Spring 2010).

Review of Daryl Ogden’s The Language of The Eyes: Science, Sexuality, and Female Vision in English Literature and Culture, 1690-1927, English Literature in Transition (1880-1920) 49: 4 (Summer 2006)
 
Review of Paul Fox and Koray Melikoglu (eds), Formal Investigations: Aesthetic Style in Late Victorian and Edwardian Detective Fiction, English Literature in Transition (1880-1920) 51: 3 (Winter 2008).

Review of Alex Murray, Recalling London: Literature and History in the work of Peter Ackroyd and Iain Sinclair (London: Continuum, 2007), in Literary London: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Representation of London 6:1 (June 2008)

Review of Graham Law and Alan Maunder, Wilkie Collins: A Literary Life (London: Palgrave, 2008) in The Journal of Victorian Culture (Spring 2009)
 

Selected Conference Papers

‘The Glamorous Shame of Chinatown’, University of Oxford, English Faculty, Fin-de-Siècle Seminar Series, November 2004
 
Invited paper ‘Limehouse Nightmares: Sax Rohmer and Thomas Burke’, University of Bristol, Centre for the Study of Colonial and Postcolonial Societies, May 2005
                      
‘Chu Chin Chow and Chinatown: London’s Nightlife and World War One’, The First World War and Popular Culture Conference, University of Newcastle, March 2006
 
Invited paper ‘Mary Butts’ Inheritance: Blake, Magic and Modernism’, Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln, April 2008

Invited paper ‘From China to Piccadilly (1929): The Untold Story’, Cityscapes of Diaspora: Chinatown and Beyond, Middlesex University, November 2008

‘Being ‘John Chinaman’: Singing the Limehouse Blues’, Metropolis in Flux: Contemporary Cultural Migrations in London, University of Westminster, June 2009

Invited Paper ‘Limehouse Nights and the Queer Spell of Chinatown’, Museum of London Docklands, July 2009

Invited Paper ‘Bedraggled ballerinas on a ‘bus back to Bow: “the fairy business”. Revisiting the Victorian East End, London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar, Institute of English Studies, University of London,
Spring 2010

‘“No Hawkers No Models”: The Vicissitudes of the Modernist Muse’ Reading Jean Rhys, Anglia Ruskin University and Kings College London, July 2010

Invited Paper ‘Maidens and Mandarins’, The Cultural Politics of English Pantomime, 1837-1901, University of Birmingham and Lancaster University, July 2010

Other Work

Anne is Consultant Literary Associate for .cent magazine, a quarterly journal for the creative arts  http://www.centmagazine.co.uk/