Sara Graca Da Silva

Sara Graca da Silva received her PhD from Keele University in 2008 with the thesis Sexual Plots in Charles Darwin and George Eliot: Evolution and Manliness in Adam Bede and The Mill on the Floss. Her research interests include the intersections between literature and science, theories of sexuality and gender, Darwinism, morality and emotion, and the evolutionary study of folktales. Graca da Silva has contributed to the Victorian Literature Handbook, the Dictionary of Nineteenth Century...See more

Sara Graca da Silva received her PhD from Keele University in 2008 with the thesis Sexual Plots in Charles Darwin and George Eliot: Evolution and Manliness in Adam Bede and The Mill on the Floss. Her research interests include the intersections between literature and science, theories of sexuality and gender, Darwinism, morality and emotion, and the evolutionary study of folktales. Graca da Silva has contributed to the Victorian Literature Handbook, the Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism, and Utopian Studies, amongst others. See less