Doctoral Candidate Ruth Quante

Ruth Quante is a doctoral student at the English Department and is the recipient of a scholarship from the Villigst Foundation. She began her doctoral research in 2021 and spent five months in 2022 as a visiting scholar at King's College London (funded by the DAAD), where she was supervised by Prof Dr Mark Turner. Her research project lies at the intersection of literary and cultural studies and examines the spatial experience of middle-class women who entered the labour market in the course of industrialisation in the late-nineteenth century. Her research interests range from the Victorian women’s and socialist movement, New Woman fiction and contemporary discussions of (wage) labour, to theories of space and mobility. She also teaches classes on these and related topics at the English Department. Her thesis, tentatively titled “Working Women’s Spaces in Late-Victorian Literature and Culture”, is supervised by Prof Dr Vera Nünning.