Isabel Bielat
Field & Specialties
Modern Europe
Britain and British Empire
Victorian and Global Nineteenth Century Studies
Digital Humanities
Education
M.A. History, University of Virginia, 2022
Thesis: "'Worthy of a More Lasting Place': Emigrant Women and Moral Order in Colonial Australia, 1849-1855"
B.A. History and Victorian Studies, Vassar College, 2020
Thesis: "Uncharted Chartists: Political Self-Representation in Chartist Women's Writing"
Biography
Isabel Bielat is a PhD candidate in Modern European history, specializing in nineteenth-century political expression, empire and nation, and print culture. Her dissertation project argues that nineteenth-century British romanticization of national causes sustained longer cross-cultural patterns of social authority and radical critique. Isabel is the editor of Essays in History, an open-access journal for emerging historians edited by graduate students at UVA.
Publications
Isabel Bielat. “New Nationalism, Legendary Women: Panchanan Bhattacharyya’s Ideals of Indian Womanhood (1921) after the Great War”. Published August 15, 2024. https://scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/blog/isabel-bielat-CBW/.
Booth, Alison, and Isabel Bielat. "A Mid-Range Team of Rivals: Women Novelists in the Collective Biographies of Women Database." Victorian Studies 65, no. 1 (2022): 17-23. https://doi.org/10.2979/vic.2022.a901281.