Dr Naomi Walker

Naomi has experience teaching on the following modules and courses at Chester and Shrewsbury:

• EN4007 - Fictional Worlds
• EN4401 - Introduction to English Literature
• EN4402 - Ways of Reading
• EN4403 - Understanding Creative Writing
• EN4406 - Reading Shropshire
• EN5002 - Victorian Literature
• EN5205 - Chester Retold: Unspoken Stories Put Into Words
• EN5401 - Literature from the Renaissance to the French Revolution
• EN5402 - Literature and Place
• EN5403 - 19th Century Women’s Writing
• EN5409 - Careers in Literature
• EN6022 - Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture
• EN6032 - Fashioning Fictions
• EN6037 - Women's Writing: Journey's From Home 1840-1970
• EN6406 - 20th/21st Century Women’s Writing
• EN7007 - Telling Stories: Debates Past and Present
• EN7201 - Nineteenth Century Literature: The Canon and Beyond
• EN7203 - Research Methods
• FP3002 - University Study Skills
• FP3003 - Independent Project
• FP3601 - Narratives and Storytelling
• Summer School Courses at Chester and Shrewsbury

Naomi's PhD thesis was entitled The Literary Places of Mary Cholmondeley and Mary Webb: Women Walking and Interacting with The Shropshire Countryside. She used G.I.S. mapping techniques to map both their work and life within the Shropshire landscape.

She was also a research assistant for Professor Deborah Wynne for her book on Manufactured Objects (in the Victorian Material Culture series).

She has co-edited a book entitled A Space of Their Own: Women, Writing and Place 1850-1950. This will be published by Routledge in 2023.

Entry on 'Mary Webb' in The Literary Encyclopedia ​(pub. August 2019).

Entries on 'Mary Webb' and 'Red Pottage by Mary Cholmondeley in The Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Victorian Women's Writing (pub. January 2020).

'One Walk a Day: The Freedom and Restriction of Movement through Space', Literary Geographies, 6 (2), Publication November 2020.

‘The Woman Question in the 1890s: Mary Cholmondeley’s Diana Tempest (1893) and Red Pottage (1899)’ in From Brontë to Bloomsbury: Realism, Sensation and the New in Women’s Writing from the 1840s to the 1930s, Vol. 3 (publication date 2023).

A Space of Their Own: Women, Writing and Place 1850-1950. Introduced and Edited with Dr K. Baker. Publication 2023.

• LLB Hons, Law Degree, University of Liverpool.
• Barrister Qualification, Inns of Court School of Law, London.
• BA Hons, English Literature Degree, The Open University.
• MA in Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture, University of Chester.
• Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
• PhD, University of Chester.