A review indicated that this 'element of Victorian poetry has been neglected; this book begins to redress this disregard in a fresh and exciting way, suggesting that there is more to the heart than just its beat.
'[6] She later wrote Form and Faith in Victorian Poetry and Religion in 2012,[7] in which she was described as challenging the consensus of academia and said to be 'close to the bone' in claiming that some texts have been 'shortchanged by a bias in post-deconstructive scholarship'.
[9][3] Her work has included a two-year, Carnegie-funded collaboration with colleagues at Glasgow University producing The People's Voice: Political Poetry, Song and the Franchise, 1832-1918 in 2018.
[3] In sharing her findings, Blair commented 'it is important to remember that the very existence of a ‘Poet’s Corner’ and the critical forum of the ‘Notices to Correspondents’, in almost every local paper across Scotland, in itself had a significant relationship to the franchise debate'.
[16] In 2019, Blair co-convened the British Association for Victorian Studies conference in the city, which brought 272 delegates from 14 countries, and claimed an inward investment of over £330,000.
'[26] As a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2021), Blair is presenting with others on the 'new and engaging ways to encounter our past' in the RSE's Curious 2021 series of public outreach events, with a session entitled 'Nostalgia and applied games'.