Diana is Professor of English Literature at the University of South Wales. Her teaching and research focuses mainly on women’s writing, with special interests in historical fiction and the Female Gothic. She teaches the first year module, ‘Reading/Writing Women’, a second year module on ‘Modernism’, and the third year module ‘Historical Fictions: Women Writing the Past.’ She also teaches the following MA modules: ‘Gothic Histories’, ‘Writing as Re-Vision: Post-war Women’s Writing’, and ‘Becoming Modern’.
She wrote The Woman’s Historical Novel: British Women Writers, 1900-2000, published by Palgrave in 2004. She is currently finishing ‘Female Gothic Histories: History, Gender and the Gothic’ for the University of Wales Press.