Julia Thomas

Julia Thomas is Professor of English Literature in Cardiff University, UK, where she specialises in Victorian visual and material culture, word and image, and digital humanities. These areas have come together in work at the forefront of the field of Illustration Studies. Thomas has published widely in these areas, including Nineteenth-Century Illustration and the Digital (Palgrave, 2017), Shakespeare's Shrine (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012), and Pictorial Victorians (Ohio University Press, 2004). She has been Principal Investigator on many illustration projects and is Director of the AHRC-funded Database of Mid-Victorian Illustration and The Illustration Archive, the largest online resource dedicated to illustration.