Dr Charlotte Charteris

Charlotte is an Academic Associate in English, specialising in prose of the fin-de-siècle, modernist and midcentury periods, with a particular interest in queer studies and the aesthetics of transgression. She received her doctorate in English from Pembroke College, Cambridge in 2012, before being appointed to a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the Faculty of English the following year. A By-Fellow of Churchill College until 2017, she has supervised for Pembroke on topics including practical criticism, prose forms and literature, gender and sexuality for many years, and was elected to a college associateship in 2019.

Charlotte is the author of The Queer Cultures of 1930s Prose: Language, Identity and Performance in Interwar Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), as well as numerous shorter publications concerned not only with the literature and history of sexuality, but – more fundamentally – with what Christopher Isherwood once termed ‘the market value of the Odd.’ These include articles on Edward Upward, Patrick Hamilton, Graham Greene, Julian Maclaren-Ross, Agatha Christie and E.M. Forster. She was the founder and inaugural convener of the university’s interdisciplinary Queer Cultures Research Seminar.