Dr Rachel Bryan

BA, MA, MPhil, PhD

Literature

Quondam Fellow since 2024

Rachel was a Post-Doctoral Reasearch Fellow in Literature at All Souls from 2019 to 2024.

Research Areas

Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture

Nineteenth-Century Realism

Literature and the Law

Extra-Legal Guilt

Henry James and Jamesian Afterlives

War Literature

Selected Publications

Bryan, Rachel, (editor with Greg Zacharias), The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James, Volume Twelve: The Other House

(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Bryan, Rachel, Twentieth-Century Literature and the Aftermath of War

(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2024).

Bryan, Rachel, ‘VICTORIA STEWART. Literature and Justice in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain: Crimes and War Crimes’,

The Review of English Studies (advanced online publication, 27 November 2023). DOI

Bryan, Rachel, ‘Henry James and Incompleteness’

Essays in Criticism, 72, 1 (2022), 53-76. DOI

Bryan, Rachel, ‘Henry James, George Eliot, and the “Old-fashioned English Novel”’

The Henry James Review, 42, 3 (2021), 192-212. DOI

Bryan, Rachel, ‘BERYL PONG. British Literature and Culture in Second World Wartime: For the Duration’

The Review of English Studies, 73, 304 (2021), 415-17. DOI

Background

Awards

AHRC DTP Postgraduate Funding (from 2015 to 2018).
Faculty of English Completion Award, University of Cambridge (2018).
The Edwin Stanley Roe Prize, Jesus College, Cambridge (2014, 2018).
Cambridge-Harvard Graduate Exchange Scholarship (2016).
Faculty of English, Graduate Funding Committee Award, University of Cambridge (2016).
Graduate Research Fund Award, Jesus College, Cambridge (2016).
Honorary Vice Chancellor’s Award, University of Cambridge (2015).
Cambridge Home and EU Scholarship Scheme Award (2014).
The Albert Goh and Elizabeth Coup Scholarship, Jesus College, Cambridge (2014).
The Gillian and John Beer Prize, University of Cambridge (2014).
The Samuel Taylor Coleridge Prize for Literary Studies, Jesus College, Cambridge (2014).
Jesus College, Cambridge Scholarship (2013, 2014).