Rocío Gómez Ruiz

Thesis working title: 'The Novelist as Moral Thinker: Ethical Inquiry and Literary Form in the Nineteenth Century'

Supervisor: Professor Sophie Ratcliffe

Research interests: Literary ethics; English literature 1830-1900; Theory of the novel; Virtue ethics; Moral psychology; Literature and philosophy; Periodical studies; and Victorian criticism.

Doctoral research: I'm studying the ethical potential of the novel form in the Victorian period, with a particular focus on novelists in their critical writings