Rachel Hamilton

I am a first year PhD student working under the supervision of Dr. Sandra den Otter. My research interests include Victorian Britain, the British monarchy, gender, print culture and media, and mental health. I intend to focus my doctoral research on the press coverage of Queen Victoria's stalkers and would-be assassins. I hope to study how gendered and sensational frameworks influenced reports of these incidents and intrusions. I also hope to explore how the media both contributed to the creation of a "collective intimacy" between the people and the monarchy and instilled in the public a presumed "right" to access the sovereign.