Amy Wilcockson

• Research Fellow, English Literature, Queen Mary University of London

Dr Amy Wilcockson is an MHRA Research Fellow at Queen Mary University of London, working on a new edition of the letters of the Romantic poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Prior to this, she worked as a Research Assistant in Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow and holds a PhD specialising in Romantic period literature from the University of Nottingham.

Her work on Romantic period poets; literary anniversaries; and Edward Lear has been published in The Times Literary Supplement, History Today Magazine, BBC History Magazine and The Conversation. She has appeared on podcasts, on the radio, and her work has been featured in the national press on numerous occasions.

​In 2020, Amy was a TV PhD candidate working with AHRC and the Edinburgh TV Festival, and was recently shortlisted as an AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker for 2025.

She has taught a broad range of subjects at the University of Nottingham, Coventry University, and the University of Glasgow, with a particular emphasis on Romantic period and eighteenth-century literature, Jane Austen, Shakespeare, visual media and culture, the Gothic, and American and Canadian Studies.

• 2025–present Research fellow, Queen Mary University of London
• 2023–2025 Research assistant, University of Glasgow

• 2023 University of Nottingham, PhD
• 2018 University of Nottingham, MA

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