Emily MCCONKEY

Victorian poetry; classical reception; Ovidian reception; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; women's writing; Pre-Raphaelite poetry and art; Christina Rossetti; poetry and music
Emily McConkey is a PhD student in the Department of English at McGill University. Her SSHRC-funded research explores the reception of Ovid in the Victorian period, mainly focused on his readership and reception among women.
M.A. University of Ottawa, 2021
B.A. (Hons.) University of Ottawa, 2019
Articles and Reviews
“The Gorgon as Guardian: Evelyn de Morgan’s Medusa Shield.” The Pre-Raphaelite Society Review, special issue, Autumn 2022.
“Christina Rossetti: Poetry, Ecology, Faith by Emma Mason.” Journal of Religion & Literature, issue 53.2, Winter 2022.
Public Scholarship
“Christina Rossetti’s “In the Bleak Midwinter” in Pop Culture.” What, Like It’s Hard? Podcast,
2021.
- Canada Graduate Scholarship — Doctoral, 2022–2025
- Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 2020–2021
- Vera Pauline Morrison Scholarship, for academic merit, 2019
- Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship, 2019–2020