Over 20 academic staff work in the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies. We also have around 40 affiliated PhD students.
Find contact details and explore who does what.
Our people
Research interests:
- Irish Literature and Irish Studies
- Modern and Contemporary
- Poetry and Poetics
- Victorian
Dr Olivia Carpenter
Lecturer
English and Related Literature Careers and Employability Coordinator
English/History Combined Course Programme Lead
Research interests:
- American Literature
- Eighteenth Century and Romantic
- Gender and Women's Studies
- Victorian
Dr Sophie Coulombeau
Senior Lecturer
Convenor, MA in Literature in the Creative and Cultural Industries
English and Related Literature Impact Officer
Research interests:
- Creative Writing
- Eighteenth Century and Romantic
- Gender and Women's Studies
Professor Rachel Cowgill
Director, Humanities Research Centre and Associate Dean for Research (Faculty of Arts & Humanities)
and Professor of Music
Disciplines: Music
- rachel.cowgill@york.ac.uk
- +44 (0)1904 32 2430
- Director, Humanities Research Centre and Associate Dean for Research: H/005d Professor of Music: RCH/327
Research interests:
Cultural-historical musicology; opera studies; British music, internationalism and empire; performance histories; music, gender and sexuality; archival research and digital musicologies
Professor Helen Cowie
Deputy Head of the Department of History
Professor of Early Modern History
History Harassment Officer
Disciplines: Early modern history
- helen.cowie@york.ac.uk
- V/N/204
Research interests:
Animal history; cultural history; Spanish Empire; history of science
- jason.edwards@york.ac.uk
- V/N/232
Research interests:
- The visual and material culture of South Asia, 1526-1947
- Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh court painting
- Long-Nineteenth-Century photography in Asia
- Queer theory, especially Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
- Imperial scupltural pantheons at St Paul's Cathedral and York Minster
Professor Mary Fairclough
Professor of Eighteenth Century and Romantic Literature
Research interests:
- Eighteenth Century and Romantic
Professor Jonathan Finch
Professor of Archaeology
Research interests:
- Post medieval
- Fieldwork (research group)
- Experimental archaeology and artefact studies (research group)
- Roman, medieval and historical (research group)
Professor Anthony Geraghty
Professor of History of Art
- anthony.geraghty@york.ac.uk
- V/N/238
Research interests:
- Architectural history
- English Baroque architecture
- Christopher Wren
- Architecture and intellectual history
Dr Matthew Jenkins
Lecturer in Buildings Archaeology
Research interests:
- Buildings biographies
- Urban history
- Long Eighteenth century
- Domestic space
- Consumer behaviour
- Roman, medieval and historical (research group)
- Buildings conservation and heritage (research group)
Dr Richard Johns
Senior Lecturer
Deputy Head of Department of History of Art
History of Art Athena Swan/Equal Opportunities Officer
History of Art Impact Officer
- richard.johns@york.ac.uk
- V/N/133
Research interests:
- British art 1650-1850
- Modern British art
- JMW Turner
- Ceramics
Dr Catriona Kennedy
History Recruitment and Admissions Tutor
Reader of Modern History
History Undergraduate Admissions Tutor
Disciplines: Modern history
- catriona.kennedy@york.ac.uk
- H/008D
Research interests:
Britain and Ireland
Dr Emma Major
Senior Lecturer
Research interests:
- Eighteenth Century and Romantic
- Gender and Women's Studies
- Victorian
Professor Jon Mee
Professor of Eighteenth Century Studies
Dr Jeremy Melius
Lecturer in British Art
- jeremy.melius@york.ac.uk
- V/N/125
Research interests:
- Modern British art
- Modern art
- Art writing
- Historiography and theory
- Gender and sexuality
Dr Alison O'Byrne
Deputy Head of Department: Learning and Teaching
Research interests:
- Eighteenth Century and Romantic
Dr Deborah Russell
Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature
Research interests:
- Eighteenth Century and Romantic
- Gender and Women's Studies
Dr Elizabeth Spencer
Lecturer in Eighteenth Century and Public History
Disciplines: Early modern history
- elizabeth.spencer@york.ac.uk
- ENV/230 and V/N/122
Research interests:
Public History; Gender and social history; material culture and clothing; consumption
Dr Paul Stephens
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
- paul.stephens@york.ac.uk
- H/117
Research interests:
- Eighteenth Century and Romantic
- Textual Scholarship
- Poetry and Poetics
- Philosophy of Economics
Dr Will Tullett
Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History
History Impact Officer
Disciplines: Early modern history
- will.tullett@york.ac.uk
- V/A/206A
Professor James Watt
Professor of English and Related Literature
Research interests:
- Eighteenth Century and Romantic
Professor Chloe Wigston Smith
Professor
Director of the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies
Director of Eighteenth Century and Romantics Research School
Convenor, MA in Literature of the Romantic Period
Convenor, MA in Eighteenth Century Studies
Research interests:
- Eighteenth Century and Romantic
- Gender and Women's Studies
- Global and Colonial
- Visual and Material Culture