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Angela Platt is Lecturer in Liberal Arts, Course Lead in English Literature and Subject Lead in Student Experience at St Mary’s University, Twickenham.

Angela’s research explores the intersection between emotions, religion, and the family in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She is particularly interested in examining how belief and familial experience reciprocally influence one another. Whilst she has examined a variety of emotions, her research centres around love as a catalyst for numerous other emotions – such as pain, nostalgia, hope, happiness, belonging, fear, and desire. She currently has three publications on love – an article which examines love and discipline in Baptist religious practice, an article examining pain as an indicator of love for nineteenth century dissenters, and a forthcoming book chapter on love and the divine in the Cultural History of Love series.