Dr Richard Fallon

I am Deputy Leader of the Collections and Culture Research Theme, through which I work to facilitate arts and humanities research at NHM. My background is in the literature and culture of the nineteenth and twentieth century, with a special focus on palaeontology and geology. This has taken me from the popularisation of dinosaurs to stranger fields like the history of occultism and fringe science.

My publications include Reimagining Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature: How the 'Terrible Lizard' Became a Transatlantic Cultural Icon (Oxford University Press, 2021), the edited anthology Creatures of Another Age: Classic Visions of Prehistoric Monsters (Valancourt Books, 2021), and Contesting Earth's History in Transatlantic Literary Culture, 1860-1935: Believers and Visionaries on the Borderlines of Geology and Palaeontology (Oxford University Press, 2025).