Laura Eastlake

Laura Eastlake is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Edge Hill University and a Director of EHU Nineteen Centre for Nineteenth Century Studies. She is the author of Ancient Rome and Victorian Masculinity (2019) which was shortlisted for the University English Book Prize. Her research interests include classical receptions, Victorian literature and culture, and masculinities. Her latest research explores Britain’s cultural relationships with refined sugar from the nineteenth century to the present.