Waugh, Jo

• Lecturer: English Literature
• School of Humanities, Religion & Philosophy

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Waugh, Jo (2024) The Brontës and Popular Culture: Reading and Misreading Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. In: Regis, Amber K. and Wynne, Deborah, (eds.) The Edinburgh Companion to the Brontës and the Arts. Edinburgh University Press

Waugh, Jo (2024) Charlotte Bronte and Contagion: Myths, Memes, and the Politics of Infection. Switzerland, Palgrave macmillan

Waugh, Jo (2022) Jane Eyre – content warnings are as old as the novel itself. The Conversation.

Smith, Adam James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3938-4836 and Waugh, Jo (2021) The Prince – the great tradition of satirising the royal family is under threat as they become more ‘human’. The Conversation.

Waugh, Jo (2021) Editorial. Brontë Studies, 46 (2). pp. 97-101.

Smith, Adam James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3938-4836 and Waugh, Jo (2019) Spitting Image: a warning from the ‘golden age’ of satire. The Conversation.

Smith, Adam James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3938-4836 and Waugh, Jo (2019) Titania McGrath: Twitter parody of ‘wokeness’ owes a lot to satirists of the 18th century. The Conversation.

Waugh, Jo (2018) How the stigma of contagion keeps alive Romantic notions of how the Brontës died. The Conversation.

Waugh, Jo (2017) Ross G. Forman, “A Parasite For Sore Eyes: Rereading Infection Metaphors in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.” Victorian Literature and Culture 44. 4 (2016): 925-47. Journal of Literature and Science, 10 (1). pp. 89-90.

Waugh, JS (2016) 'Staying Calm and Seizing the Iron: Contagion, Fermentation, and the Management of the Rabies Threat in Charlotte Bronte's Shirley'. Victorian Review, 42 (1). pp. 149-166.