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University Lecturer in English
Dr Marcus Waithe completed his PhD at King’s College Cambridge in 2004. He held the post of Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Sheffield between 2005-2009, before returning to Cambridge in 2009 to take up a University Lectureship. He is the author of William Morris’s Utopia of Strangers: Victorian Medievalism and the Ideal of Hospitality (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2006). Articles by him have appeared in Victorian Studies, Textual Practice, The Yearbook of English Studies, English and Essays in Criticism. Apart from writing on Victorian topics, Dr Waithe has published on the poetry and criticism of Geoffrey Hill.
In 2010, Dr Waithe launched Ruskin at Walkley, a funded project to reconstruct John Ruskin’s museum for artisans on the web: http://www.ruskinatwalkley.org/
Dr Waithe is currently completing a book entitled The Brain-workers: Literature and the Labour of Mind in Britain, 1820-1930. This work investigates Victorian attempts to justify the worth of intellectual labour, paying particular attention to the gap between the work of the mind and the work of the hands. He is interested in the ethical tradition of social criticism, and in connections between literature and the visual arts. These concerns have led to collaborative work with museums. Work in progress includes essays on ‘Ruskin, Hill and Intrinsic Value’, on the poetry of William Barnes, and on William Empson’s poem, ‘Legal Fiction’.
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