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Philosophy and Intellectual History Researchers

Ian F A Bell
Keele University
Professor of American Literature
Ezra Pound and Henry James; the intellectual history of Modernist aesthetics; American notions of artistry; Relations between history, fiction, and commercial forms; Literary negotiations with science
Medical Humanities and Natural Sciences Philosophy and Intellectual History Visual Culture
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Emily Coit
University of Bristol
Lecturer in English
Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary and intellectual history; transatlantic liberalisms; history of higher education, feminism, and whiteness; Henry James, Edith Wharton, Henry Adams
Citizenship and Democracy Book History and Material Culture Philosophy and Intellectual History
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Michael Collins
King's College London
Senior Lecturer in American Literature
American Intellectual History; American Studies, specifically Anthropology and Sociology; Ethnicity and Class in U.S. Literature and Culture; American Realism and Modernism; The American Short Story
New Formalisms, Poetics, Genre Studies Philosophy and Intellectual History Race and Ethnicity
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Thomas Constantinesco
Université Paris Diderot
Associate Professor in American Literature
Literature and philosophy, Medical humanities
Medical Humanities and Natural Sciences Philosophy and Intellectual History
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David Peters Corbett
Courtauld Institute
Professor of American Art & Director of the Centre for American Art
American Art 1850-1950, particularly painting, British Art, 1850-1950, Anglo-American Artistic Relations, Word and Image relations
Philosophy and Intellectual History Transatlantic, Transpacific, Transnational Visual Culture
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James Emmott
Oxford Brookes University
Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century literary, cultural, and philosophical history; media, science, and technology; voice and language; scholarly communication
Orality, Sound, Performance Pedagogy Philosophy and Intellectual History
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Janet Floyd
King's College London
Professor of American Literature and Culture
The history of friendship in the nineteenth-century; Communities of artists and writers; The American West; Domesticity and Domestic Culture; Transatlanticism
Nationalism, Regionalism, Localism Philosophy and Intellectual History Transatlantic, Transpacific, Transnational
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Gary Frazer Fisher
University of Nottingham
PhD Candidate in Classics
Early American Theatre, Reception of Antiquity in Modern Political Dialogue, Historiography of Ancient Rome, Historiography of Sparta, Classical Political Philosophy
Cultures of Empire and Imperialism Philosophy and Intellectual History
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Chris Gair
University of Glasgow
Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature
Realism and Naturalism; Countercultures; Beat Generation; Postnational and Transatlantic Studies; Visual Culture; Sport and Literature; World’s Columbian Exposition
Philosophy and Intellectual History Transatlantic, Transpacific, Transnational Visual Culture
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Nick Gaskill
University of Oxford
Associate Professor of American Literature
Nineteenth-century literature, pragmatism, aesthetics, sensation, color, modernity
Affect and Sense Studies Philosophy and Intellectual History Visual Culture
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David Greenham
University of the West of England
Associate Professor of English
Ralph Waldo Emerson; Pedagogies of Close Reading; Metaphor and Cognition; Intellectual History
New Formalisms, Poetics, Genre Studies Pedagogy Philosophy and Intellectual History
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Tomos Hughes
University of Warwick
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Nineteenth-century American Literature; Political Fiction; Slavery and Capitalism in the US; Marxist theory and the Frankfurt School
Class, Capitalism, the Market Citizenship and Democracy Philosophy and Intellectual History
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Dominic Jaeckle
Goldsmiths, University of London
PhD Candidate in English Literature and Editor of Hotel
Ralph Waldo Emerson; Capitalism; Philosophy; Film and Visual Culture; Aesthetics
Class, Capitalism, the Market Philosophy and Intellectual History Visual Culture
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Michael Jonik
University of Sussex
Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American and transatlantic literature, Continental philosophy, Contemporary philosophy, The history of science
Medical Humanities and Natural Sciences Philosophy and Intellectual History Transatlantic, Transpacific, Transnational
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Peter Knight
University of Manchester
Professor of American Studies
Conspiracy theories; Cultural approaches to finance; Vernacular epistemologies; History of financial advice
Class, Capitalism, the Market Philosophy and Intellectual History Popular Culture and Children's Literature
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Nick Lawrence
University of Warwick
Associate Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies
Transnational American Studies; Hawthorne and Whitman; Marxism, the Frankfurt School and critical media theory; C21 literary and graphic culture; modernism and modernity; world-literature and world-ecology; and contemporary avant-garde poetry and poetics
Class, Capitalism, the Market New Formalisms, Poetics, Genre Studies Philosophy and Intellectual History
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Andrew Lawson
Leeds Beckett University
Reader in American Literature
Class in American Literary and Cultural History, History of Capitalism in the US; Formation of the Middle Class; Walt Whitman
Class, Capitalism, the Market Philosophy and Intellectual History
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Ruth Livesey
Royal Holloway, University of London
Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature and Thought
Nineteenth-century literature, culture, and political thought; Provincialism; Victorian literature; Transatlanticism; Representations of American democracy in Britain
Citizenship and Democracy Philosophy and Intellectual History Transatlantic, Transpacific, Transnational
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Edouard Marsoin
Université de Paris
Teaching Fellow in English
Herman Melville, Pleasure and Enjoyment in Literature, Literature and Dietetics, Literature and Philosophy, Gender and Sexuality, Slave Narratives
Affect and Sense Studies Gender, Sexuality, Queer Studies Philosophy and Intellectual History
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Matthew Pethers
University of Nottingham
Assistant Professor in American Intellectual and Cultural History
Intellectual History, Print Culture, American Revolution, Early American Drama, American Romanticism
Book History and Material Culture Citizenship and Democracy Philosophy and Intellectual History
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Benjamin Pickford
University of Lausanne
Maître-Assistant in American Literature
Nonfiction prose; Capitalism; Marxism; Authorship studies; Poetics
Class, Capitalism, the Market New Formalisms, Poetics, Genre Studies Philosophy and Intellectual History
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Cécile Roudeau
Université Paris Diderot
Professor of American Literature
Literature and epistemology; regionalism; women's writing; democracy and the state
Citizenship and Democracy Nationalism, Regionalism, Localism Philosophy and Intellectual History
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Stephen Shapiro
University of Warwick
Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies
Cultural Studies; Literary Theory; Marxism and World-systems Analyses; Urban and Spatial Studies; Sociology of Religion; Television Studies; and Critiques of Mental Disease
Class, Capitalism, the Market Philosophy and Intellectual History Religion and Faith
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François Specq
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Professor of American Literature and Culture
Intellectual History, and Visual Culture, Literature and environment, American Transcendentalism (esp. Thoreau), Antislavery and Abolitionism, Women's Rights
New Formalisms, Poetics, Genre Studies Philosophy and Intellectual History Visual Culture
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Edward Sugden
King's College London
Lecturer in American Literature
Worlds-Systems Analysis and Transnational Theory, Theories of Space, Time and History, Modernity and its Elisions, Minoritarian and Multilingual America
Geography, Cartography, Travel Philosophy and Intellectual History Transatlantic, Transpacific, Transnational
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Andrew Taylor
University of Edinburgh
Senior Lecturer in American Literature
Intellectual history; historiography and contemporary fiction
Philosophy and Intellectual History Transatlantic, Transpacific, Transnational
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Peter Templeton
Loughborough University
Honorary Fellow, School of Social Science and Humanities
Southern studies, transatlanticism, politics and fiction
Philosophy and Intellectual History Nationalism, Regionalism, Localism Transatlantic, Transpacific, Transnational
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Robin Vandome
University of Nottingham
Lecturer in American Intellectual and Cultural History
History of Natural Sciences, Geology, and Anthropology; Intellectual History; Pragmatism; Pedagogy and Institutionalization
Medical Humanities and Natural Sciences Pedagogy Philosophy and Intellectual History
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Jaap Verhuel
Universiteit Utrecht
Associate Professor of Cultural History
Cultural history; Cultural transfer; Digital humanities; Transnational and transatlantic histories
Digital Humanities Philosophy and Intellectual History Transatlantic, Transpacific, Transnational
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Georgia Walton
University of Leeds
PhD Student
Transcendentalism; Transcendentalist legacies; Romanticism; contemporary American literature
Affect and Sense Studies New Formalisms, Poetics, Genre Studies Philosophy and Intellectual History
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  • Info
    • About Us
    • Members' Page
    • Mentoring Scheme 2023
    • Essay Prizes
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  • Events
    • Reading Groups >
      • Manchester, June 2014
      • Norwich, November 2014
      • London, June 2015
      • Nottingham, September 2015
      • Canterbury, June 2016
      • Oxford, October 2016
      • London, June 2017
      • Edinburgh, January 2018
      • Birmingham, June 2018
      • London, November 2018
      • Aston, June 2019
      • Zoom, July 2020
      • Zoom, November 2020
      • Bristol, December 2023
    • Symposia >
      • Bristol 2023
      • Symposium Archive: King's College 2022 >
        • Programme
      • Symposium Archive: Nottingham 2019 >
        • Programme
      • Symposium Archive: Exeter 2017 >
        • Programme
      • Symposium archive: Warwick 2015 >
        • Programme
      • Symposium archive: Sussex 2013 >
        • Programme
    • BrANCA-sponsored panels
  • Teaching
    • Materials
  • Digital Resources