Dr Naomi Walker

I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Authority. I currently teach on the following modules: A233 Telling stories: the novel and beyond; A334 English Literature from Shakespeare to Austen; A335 Literature in transition: from 1800 to present. My area of expertise is women writers and how they represent women walking in the countryside. I have written extensively on this issue and have published widely in both academic and non-academic publications. I recently co-edited the book A Space of Their Own: Women, Writing and Place 1850-1950 (2023) Routledge. I have also written articles on the representation of women which have been published in editions of Cheshire Life magazine in the March, June and October 2024 issues. I have written for The Conversation website on Jane Austen and was interviewed about Austen for Radio New Zealand. I am currently co-editing The Edinburgh Companion to the Regional Magazine and this will be published by Edinburgh University Press in 2027.

Publications

Baker, Katie and Walker, Naomi (introduced and edited) (2023) A Space of Their Own: Women, Writing and Place 1850-1950. Routledge.

Walker, Naomi. ‘Beatrice Tunstall’. (March, 2024) Cheshire Life.

Walker, Naomi. ‘Book Review: Virginia’s Sisters’ (June 2024) The Modernist Review.

Walker, Naomi. ‘Changing Attitudes to Perceptions of Gender: Representations of the Sexes in Cheshire Life from the 1930s to today’ (October 2024) Cheshire Life.

Walker, Naomi. ‘Golden Gossip’ (August 2024) Cheshire Life.

Walker, Naomi. "Mary Webb". (2019) The Literary Encyclopedia.

Walker, Naomi. ‘Mary Webb’. (2020) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women’s Writing.

Walker, Naomi. (2020) ‘One Walk a Day: The Freedom and Restriction of Movement through Space’, Literary Geographies, 6(2), 208-211.

Walker, Naomi. (2020) ‘Red Pottage by Mary Cholmondeley’. The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women’s Writing. Palgrave.

Walker, Naomi. (2020) ‘‘These Boots were made for Walking’: What Women wore to Walk’, Women in the Hills, www.womeninthehills.co.uk

Walker, Naomi. (2023) ‘The Freedom to Roam: The Covid 19 Pandemic’s impact on the romance of the British countryside in literature’. Literary Geography: Theory and Practice. University of Wales Press.

Walker, Naomi ‘Walking and Writing the Rural: Mary Webb and the Shropshire Landscape’ in Baker and Walker, (2023) A Space of Their Own: Women, Writing and Place 1850-1950. London, Routledge.

Walker, Naomi. (2025) ‘Why Jane Austen readers still leave letters at her graveside’, The Conversation website. Why Jane Austen readers still leave letters at her graveside

Walker, Naomi. (2024) ‘Women’s Quest for Independence in the 1890s: Mary Cholmondeley’s Diana Tempest and Red Pottage’. From Brontë to Bloomsbury series Vol.3, 1880s-1890s. Palgrave Macmillan.