Robert Laurella

Supervisor: Dr. Sos Eltis

Research Interests: Victorian literature and culture; adaptation theory; sensation fiction and theatre

Doctoral Research: My thesis explores the relationship between Victorian politics and the adaptations of popular novels on the nineteenth-century stage. I am particularly interested in how omissions, editions, and revisions in stage versions of novels reveal deeper concerns with local and international affairs, and how adaptation as a historical phenomenon has informed modern versions of the same practice.