Dr Claire Nicholson

Claire Nicholson has taught English in Cambridge for many years. Her interest in fashion history was combined with literary analysis in her dissertation In Woolf’s Clothing: Clothes and Fashion in Virginia Woolf’s Fiction, for which she was awarded her PhD in 2013. Her specialist area is Modernism and Virginia Woolf, and the history of women’s writing. Publications include The Voyage Out: Centenary Perspectives (2015) which was produced to mark the centenary of Virginia Woolf’s first novel.

Claire is Chair of the Virginia Woolf Society and lectures on Woolf in a variety of contexts including literary festivals, the National Trust, the British Library and Literature Cambridge in addition to her teaching courses for PACE on Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group. She is currently preparing her PhD thesis for publication as well as contributing articles to journals.

Her teaching style is inclusive and encourages student participation in discussion in response to written, visual and audio material.