Anna-Maria Grill, M.A.

• L.T. Meade
• Victorian Medicine
• Trauma and Literature
• Victorian Popular Fiction
• Medical Humanities
• Gender Studies
• Sensation and Crime Fiction
• The Victorian Illustrated Serial, Advertisements, and the Periodical Press
• Transgressive Women in Early Modern and (Late) Victorian Literature
• Cultural Materialism
• Folklore and Victorian Ghost Stories

PhD Project: From Country Herb Women to Metropolitan Woman Doctor: Negotiating an Urban Female Medical Presence in Popular Literature (1858-1914)

• WS 22,23: “Tracking the Beast Within”: The Metropolitan Monster in 19th-century fin de siècle Literature, Electronic Resources in Literary and Cultural Studies
• SoS 23: “That Great Chaos of Humanity”: Narratives of Urban Modernity in Victorian Literature, Electronic Resources in Literary and Cultural Studies
• WS 23,24: “Idols of Perversity”: Transgressive Women in Victorian Literature, Electronic Resources in Literary and Cultural Studies
• SoS 24: Crime and Detective Stories in the 19th Century, Electronic Resources in Literary and Cultural Studies
• WS 24,25: “Spectral Politics”: Victorian Ghost Stories, Electronic Resources in Literary and Cultural Studies
• SoS 25: “Far-Off Tales and Children’s Stories”: Victorian Folklore, Fantasy, and the Fantastic; “Preaching to the Nerves”: Victorian Sensation Fiction, Electronic Resources in Literary and Cultural Studies
• WS 25,26: “I Trust Facts, Not Faces”: The Rise of the Literary Detective, Electronic Resources in Literary and Cultural Studies
• SoS 26: “Hewn in a Wild Workshop”: Reading the Brontës, “The Crime of the Age”: Poison Narratives in Victorian Literature, Electronic Resources in Literary and Cultural Studies
   

• “This is my sanctum sanctorum: The Beauty Shop in L.T. Meade and Robert Eustace's Fin de Siècle Fiction”, ‘The Victorians and their Publics’: Annual Conference of the Victorian Popular Fiction Association, Liverpool, UK, 2026.
• “The Lady wishes to take a lesson: Medical Education and the Dangerous Woman Medical Apprentice in Victorian Sensation Fiction”, Passau-Regensburg Kolloquium, Regensburg, 2026.
• “Let me be the physician to strike to the root of your malady: Negotiating Female Medical Agency in Mary Elisabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret”, Research Seminar, Regensburg, 2026.
• “Sonic Haunting in the Victorian Ghost Story: The Haunted Organ(ist) in Elizabeth Gaskell's ”The Old Nurse's Story" (1852) and Rosa Mulholland's “The Haunted Organist of Hurly Burly” (c. 1880), The Victorian Short Story: Influence, Innovation, and Legacy: VPFA Study Day, digital, 2026.
• "A Dangerous Apprentice: Woman Medical Apprenticeship in Wilkie Collins's Jezebel's Daughter," 'Mediating Medicine: Health and Illness in the Victorian Era': 8th DACH Victorians Workshop, digital, 2025.
• "The Villain's Sidekick: Bellatrix Lestrange in the Harry Potter Series," Harry Potter Academic Conference, Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, US, 2025.
• "The Mad-Doctress and Her Patients: Female Medical Agency in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret", 'Heights, Depths, and Extremes': Annual Conference of the Victorian Popular Fiction Association, Birmingham and Midland Institute, UK, 2025.
• "A Doctor to Have Confidence In? Poisoning Women Medics in Victorian Popular Literature", Regensburg-Passau Research Colloquium, Regensburg, Germany, 2025.
• "'A Space of Her Own': Negotiating a Female Medical Presence in Popular Literature and the Periodical Press (1858-1914)", Regensburg-Passau Research Colloquium, Passau, Germany, 2024.

• “'Let me be the physician to strike to the root of your malady': Negotiating Female Medical Agency in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret.” Victorian Popular Fictions, 8.1 (Spring 2026): 64-78.
• "Echo and Embodiment of Trauma: George R.R. Martin's Hodor as Tragic Sidekick Figure in A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones," in: Critical Insights: Sidekicks in Literature, ed. Laura and James Nicosia (Grey House Publishing: Ipswich, 2026) 210-232. 

• Interdisciplinary Medical Humanities Forum
• Victorian Popular Fiction Association
• Wilkie Collins Society
• International Gothic Association
• DACH Victorians
• The British Society of Literature and Science

Greta Depledge PGR Prize (2025)

awarded at the 2025 Victorian Popular Fiction Annual Conference for the talk "The Mad-Doctress and Her Patients: Female Medical Agency in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret."

Dr. Katharina Sailer Prize (2022)

awarded for the M.A. thesis "(Un)Masking the Spectre: The Late Victorian Female Criminal at the Intersection of Criminal, Gender, and Consumer Discourse in Nineteenth-Century Sensation and Detective Fiction"

Dr. Katharina Sailer Prize (2020)

awarded for the B.A. thesis "The Representation of Female Criminals in Late Nineteenth-Century Fin de Siècle Literature"