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Our Staff

Our staff provide specialist supervision in Archaeology, English Literature, History, History of Art and Philosophy. They have published extensively within the period. Together with our doctoral and Masters students they have created a lively research community where you are encouraged to pursue your interests in the politics, culture, literature, art and society of the period.

  • John Barrell, English: English literature, art and history, 1730-1830
  • Helen Cowie, History
  • Geoffrey Cubitt, History: Political and cultural history of modern France, social memory and commenoration
  • Ziad Elmarsafy, English: Middle Eastern/North African literature (Arabic, French, English); the Enlightenment
    Jonathan Finch, Archaeology: Estate and designed landscapes; hunting and field sports
  • Alan Forrest, History: French Revolution and Napoleonic periods; cultural history of war
  • Kevin Gilmartin, English: Eighteenth-century and Romantic literature: politics and print culture
  • Natasha Glaisyer, History: Cultural history of commerce in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
  • Hannah Greig, History: Social, political and material history of Britain, c.1688-1830
  • Joanna de Groot, History: Histories of race, empire and ethnicity; women and gender histories
  • Harriet Guest, English: Eighteenth-century and Romantic Literature, women's writing, exploration voyages, especially Cook
  • Nicholas Guyatt, History: Atlantic World before 1800; history of the USA before 1900
  • Mark Hallett, History of Art: Visual culture in Britain, 1650-1850
  • Mark Jenner, History: Early modern English history; medicine(social); the body
  • Catriona Kennedy, History: Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British and Irish history; gender, war and revolution
  • Emma Major, English: Religion, gender and national identity, c. 1700-1900
  • Alison O'Byrne, English: Representations of the city in the long eighteenth century
  • Andrew Ward, Philosophy
  • James Watt, English: Empire and identity, 1750-1840; British Orientalisms in the 'long' eighteenth century, Gothic literature  

Emeritus Staff