Dr Nadine Leese

I'm Reader in Women's & Gender Studies at Liverpool John Moores University and the creator of The New Academic. I specialise in literary and cultural histories of women, gender, and feminism in Britain from the Victorian period to the present day, with particular interests in the gendered histories of widowhood, feminist historiography, and contemporary women’s writing. I’m currently working on a book called The Widow: A Literary & Cultural History (Liverpool University Press), and I’m the creator of the War Widows’ Stories project. I have a passion for participatory methods, working with people outside of academy, helping them tell their stories, and bringing those stories as well as my research to a wider audience. When I’m not working, I can usually be found outdoors, usually in the Peak District, running and walking with my dogs, or at my favourite bouldering wall.