Dr Claire Wilkinson

Dr Claire Wilkinson is a Teaching Associate in Eighteenth Century English Literature at the Faculty of English.  She is a Bye-Fellow at Murray Edwards College and a Senior Member of Robinson College, where she teaches several undergraduate papers to students in Part I and Part II of the English degree.

Claire's research interests lie in the area of Economic Criticism.  She has published journal articles and book chapters on how literature has represented financial crisis since 1720 and has a book on the South Sea Bubble forthcoming in 2019.  She was a contributing writer to the Barbican installation "WE KNOW NOT WHAT WE MAY BE" (September 2018) and is particularly interested in how literature and arts can help us to understand economic problems,  .