Erin Vandenberg

Erin Vandenberg joined McGill’s English PhD program in 2025. She has completed an undergraduate degree in English and History at Queen’s University and a master’s degree at Trinity College, Dublin. Her master’s dissertation focused on the role of G. K. Chesterton’s Father Brown stories as rejections of the cold, scientific detectives in nineteenth-century mystery fiction (looking primarily at the works of Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar Allan Poe). She is conducting her PhD research on the roles of taste and consumption in Victorian sensation novels, with a focus on imperialist attitudes towards foreign foods and modes of eating.