User:Mila daskal

About Me
I'm Mila, a PhD student at the Univeristy of Strathclyde in Glasgow. My dissertation is about magazines published by patients in nineteenth-century asylums (e.g. The Opal of the New York State Lunatic Asylum). Niche, I know.

I have an MA (Hons) degree in English Literature and an MSc in Book History from the University of Edinburgh.

Interests
I'm madly in love with the nineteenth century and generally spend a lot of time reading about the Victorian era. Some of the areas that I'm interested in are:


 * history of medicine, psychiatry and science
 * history of publishing and the periodical press
 * Victorian literature, especially poetry (Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold and George Meredith are my favourites)
 * gender and sexuality (so yes, I'm painfully aware that my favourite Victorian poets are all men. C'est la vie!)