Katherine Aske is a Lecturer of English Literature at Edinburgh Napier University (ENU). Her research examines understandings and moral associations of female beauty in the literature and cultural history of the long eighteenth century, and is currently working on the history of dermatology (c.1660–1800) with the support of a British Academy Small Research Grant. Katherine has several publications in these fields, and recently published a chapter on skincare in Daniel Turner’s De Morbis Cutaneis (1714) with Manchester University Press. Her monograph, Being Pretty in the Eighteenth Century: A Cultural History of Female Beauty, is forthcoming with Bloomsbury. Katherine also works within the digital humanities and am co-lead of the Women in AI and Data Science group as part of the Turing University Network at ENU.
