Katerina Garcia-Walsh

Katerina is an Associate of St Leonard’s at the University of St Andrews. Though her doctoral work focuses on Margaret Oliphant, Katerina has also given conference and seminar papers on Arthur Machen (CSWG Warwick 2019), Robert Louis Stevenson (Aesthetics of Decay Oxford 2020), Charles Dickens (VPFA 2021) and George Eliot (MLAIS Glasgow 2022).

Katerina has published articles on "Mesmerism in Late Victorian Theatre" (CJES 2020) and Oscar Wilde (VPFJ 2021) and has papers forthcoming in 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies and OGOM's ‘Ill met by moonlight’: Gothic Encounters with Enchantment and the Faerie Realm in Literature and Culture.

She has also co-organised a three-day conference with Dr Paul Thompson titled Rewriting Gender in An Age of Transition (1880-1940), which took place in September 2022.

EDUCATION

Katerina was recently awarded a PhD for her thesis on Spectral Trauma and Narrative Memory in Margaret Oliphant’s Gothic, supervised by Dr Katie Garner. Her thesis considers Margaret Oliphant’s Gothic fiction through the lens of memory and trauma studies. She also holds an MA in Literary Studies from the Complutense University of Madrid, an MSt in English Literature (1830-1914) from Oxford and a BA (summa cum laude) from Georgetown University, where she majored in English and Spanish literature alongside a minor in political philosophy through the School of Foreign Service.

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Literature and Literary Theory, Visual Arts and Performing Arts

Scopus Publications

Oscar Wilde’s Misattributions: A Legacy of Gross Indecency
Katerina Garcia-Walsh
Victorian Popular Fiction Association
Drawing on correspondence and periodical advertising as well as paratextual and bibliographic detail, this paper compares editions of the three most prominent texts falsely associated with Oscar Wilde: The Green Carnation (1894), an intimate satire on Wilde’s relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas actually written by Douglas’ friend Robert Smythe Hichens; “The Priest and the Acolyte” (1894), a paedophilic story written by John Francis Bloxam and presented as evidence against Wilde during his libel trial and then privately reprinted; and the erotic novel Teleny (1893), which is still attributed to Wilde today. His name appeared in tandem with these novels over the course of a century, linking him further with sex and scandal. Two separate editions of Teleny in 1984 and 1986 feature introductions by Winston Leyland and John McRae, respectively justifying Wilde’s authorship and describing the work as likely a round-robin pornographic collaboration between Wilde and his young friends. By recognising and exposing these cases of literary impersonation, we can amend Wilde’s legacy.