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Research Associates

In addition to our teaching and emeritus staff, the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies is home to research associates working on funded projects or scholars who are affiliated with the Centre.  

Applications are open to researchers who have some affiliation to the Centre. Please email us at cecs1@york.ac.uk with the following documents.

●    A one-page letter of application, giving details of your research interests and indicating how research associate status will be beneficial for you.
●    A short CV of no more than two pages, with full name, address, and information on where you are currently working.

Please note that we receive many requests for Research Associate status each year, and can only accept a few due to costs and administrative time.
In most cases, associate status lasts for a maximum of 2 years.

Applications are considered on a first come, first serve basis, taking into consideration the following:
●    how they fit with the Centre’s research interests
●    the benefit to the Centre in terms of research engagement and potential for collaboration

Research Associates may have the opportunity to present and give a talk in one of the Centre seminars or events. 

Tom Almeroth-Williams

Research Associate

Research interests:

  • Human–animal interactions
  • Urban life
  • Work in Georgian Britain

Nigel Aston

Research Associate

Research interests:

  • British and French religious, political and intellectual history in the ‘long’ eighteenth-century. 

Research interests:

  • Ann Radcliffe's "post-1797" texts

Sharon Choe

Research Associate

Research interests:

  • William Blake
  • Norse Reception Studies
  • Disability Studies

Katie Crowther

Research Associate

Research interests:

  • Letter-writing and material culture in the long eighteenth century

Holly Day

Research Associate

Research interests:

  • Print culture
  • Life-writing
  • Manuscript studies

Matthew Dennison

Research Associate

Research interests:

  • Late-Baroque and early-eighteenth-century court culture

Clémentine Garcenot

Research Associate

Research interests:

  •  Women’s history
  • Life-writing
  • Treatments of the French Revolution

Charlotte Goodge

Research Associate

Research interests:

  • Health/medical humanities
  • Fat studies
  • History of the body
  • History of medicine
  • Cultural studies
  • Print practice and culture
  • Women’s writing
  • History of sex work
  • Indigenous and settler colonial studies and critical race theory

Stephanie Howard-Smith

Research Associate

Research interests:

  •  Cultural history of animals in the long eighteenth century

Frances Long

Research Associate

Research interests:

  • Children's sleep and sleeplessness and the experience of both adults and children in the long eighteenth century

Charles Martindale

Research Associate

Research interests:

  • Latin poetry

Fiona Milne

Research Associate

Research interests:

  • The relationship between literary and legal histories of character in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries

Madeleine Pelling

Research Associate

Research interests:

  • Material and visual culture in the eighteenth century

Alice Rhodes

Research Associate

Research interests:

  • The intersection between environmental and medical humanities
  • Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century medicine, technology, and life sciences
  • Romantic era politics
  • Materialist philosophy

Dustin Risner

Research Associate

Research interests:

  • Apocalyptic themes within 18th century Gothic literature

Lilian Tabois

Research Associate

Research interests:

  • Women’s travel writing
  • British informal imperialism in Latin America
  • Women historians

Yusuke Wakazawa

Research Associate

Research interests:

  • Intellectual genealogy of the Addisonian model of philosophy and conversation in the long eighteenth century

Christopher Webster

Research Associate

Research interests:

  • Buildings of the late-Georgian England

Joanna Wharton

Research Associate

Research interests:

  • Literary-scientific cultures of Romantic Britain and Ireland

Sarah Wride

Research Associate

Research interests:

  • How and why conceptions of what ‘culture’ is and does have changed over time
  • The history and ethics of the true crime genre
  • How and why homicides committed in Britain and Ireland 1827-1953 have been represented, and their copycat and other effects
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