Kerry Stanley began her PhD in 2013 currently titled ‘Boundaries Drawn by Silence: The Theorisation of Domesticity in the Fiction of Jane Austen’ supervised by Dr Jennie Batchelor and Professor Donna Landry. Her work addresses topics including Austen’s treatment of leisure, the female body and British colonialism in seeking to demonstrate her innovative, and highly critical, theorisation of domesticity.More widely, her research interests are women writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; themes including selfhood, the body, gender, authorship, and feminism in the works of these authors; and feminist theory.