Casey Maeve

Qualifications

Second-year PhD English Literature, University of Birmingham

The Birmingham Award, University of Birmingham

MRes with Distinction, University of Worcester

BA Joint Hons Sociology and Politics, University of Worcester

Teaching and Research

Casey teaches Sociology and Politics in the Institute of Arts and Humanities. She has also previously taught across History and English Language, with over 3 years university teaching experience. Casey also has mentoring experience within the University of Birmingham’s LGBT+ mentor programme.

Casey’s research interests are centred on Sapphic, queer poetry, literature and art towards the end of the nineteenth century. She enjoys teaching a variety of modules across the Sociology course, particularly topics that relate to race and ethnicity, Westminster politics, and gender and sexuality.

Conference Papers

‘“Suffering Sapphos!” Renee Vivien and Natalie Barney’s Sapphic poetics at the fin de siècle’, Victorian Popular Fiction Association, Birmingham and Midlands Institute, July 2025

‘Sapphic pageboys and feminine androgynes: Queer and proto-trans fin de siècle poets Charles Swinburne and Renee Vivien’, ROLES: Looking back and looking forwards, University of Birmingham, June 2025

‘Literary lesbians: The taboo, Sapphic legacies of Michael Field’, British Association of Victorian Studies and British Association of Romantic Studies, Royal Holloway University of London, June 2025

‘The incest taboo and the literary lesbian Michael Field’, Queer Pasts, University of Copenhagen, May 2025

‘“Suffering Sapphos!” Renee Vivien and Natalie Barney’s Sapphic poetics at the fin de siècle’, Dismantling Structures, University of Worcester, May 2025

Publication pending

The lesbian literary networks of Renee Vivien and Natalie Barney: Rewriting the Sapphic canon, VPFJ, Spring 2026