Lucy Thompson
Dr Lucy Thompson is a lecturer at Aberystwyth University. She specialises in studying the emotional effects of surveillance throughout history and in the present. She examines the intersection of gender, literature, and Critical Disability Studies to shed light on how surveillance has influenced cultural perceptions of disability. In her latest book, Gender, Surveillance, and Literature in the Romantic Period (2022), she explores the relationship between surveillance theory, gender, and Romanticism.
“Today, many of us keenly publish and publicise our lives on various online platforms…this book stems from the realisation that the people of the Romantic era would probably have been puzzled by the amount of information we willing share about ourselves and the extent of the surveillance we are under”
L. Thompson, Gender, Surveillance and Literature in the Romantic Period (Routledge, 2022)
Guide to Surveillance Terms 