There are three, often interconnected strands to Anne Schwan’s research: the critical study of crime and imprisonment, Victorian studies and gender studies. Schwan is the author of Convict Voices: Women, Class, and Writing about Prison in Nineteenth-Century England (University of New Hampshire Press, 2014), co-author of How to Read Foucault’s Discipline and Punish (Pluto, 2011), and co-editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Digital and Public Humanities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), alongside various articles and chapters.

She is currently completing a scholarly edition of A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four for the Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Arthur Conan Doyle (Edinburgh University Press) and beginning new research on contemporary literature, culture and criminal justice, with a focus on gender-based violence and alternative forms of criminal justice.