Rocío Gómez Ruiz

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

Supervisors: Professor Sophie Ratcliffe and Professor Helen Small

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

Doctoral research: I'm studying the ethical potential of literary form in the Victorian period, with a particular focus on novelists George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, and Margaret Oliphant.