Laurence Talairach is a Professor of Victorian Literature at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès and an associate researcher at the Alexandre-Koyré Center for the History of Science and Technology (Paris). Her academic interests span medicine, natural history and British literature in the long nineteenth century. Her most recent monograph is Animals, Museum Culture and Children’s Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Curious Beasties (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).
Her current research aims to map out the forms of natural historical knowledge produced by British women in the nineteenth century and seeks to examine the complexity of the relationship between scientific knowledge and popular representations, the construction of a learned/scientific female identity, the relationship of women naturalists to scientific expertise, and their place in the field of scientific knowledge.
During her research stay at the Centre of Book Cultures and Publishing (CBCP), she will be focusing on the correspondence between Victorian naturalists and children’s writers Margaret Gatty and Juliana Horatia Ewing and their editor, George Bell.
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Academic profile: https://cak.ehess.fr/membres/laurence-talairach