2004-2005 James M. Osborn Post-doctoral Research Fellow in British Studies
Emma Jay

Emma Jay earned her Ph.D at St. Hugh’s College, Oxford, in 2004, and her M. Phil in
English at Lincoln College, Oxford, in 2000. Her scholarly research has already begun to
have a significant impact on 18th century studies, both in England and on the Continent.
Her study of Queen Caroline’s library, for example, will feature in the 2004 Panizzi
Lectures at the British Library, while her papers and dissertation chapter on literary
patronage in the mid-eighteenth century have already begun to be adduced in scholarly
studies from Art History to the History of the Book.

Conference and Seminar papers:
“Queen Caroline’s Literary Books: Patronage, Canonicity, and Display,” symposium,
“Women and Material Culture 1660-1830,” Chawton House Library, Hampshire, July
2004.
“Death, Fame, and Authorship: Literary Responses to Queen Caroline’s Hermitage at
Richmond,” seminar on Restoration and Reform, St. Hugh’s College, Oxford, May 2003.
“Queen Caroline: Royal Mother,” conference, “Hanoverian Court Culture in Britain 1714-
1760,” Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, April 2003.
“Stephen Duck: Court Poet,” 32nd Annual British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
(BSECS) conference, St. Hugh’s College, Oxford, January 2003.
“Queen Caroline as a Literary Patron,” 31st Annual British Society for Eighteenth-
Century Studies (BSECS) conference, Queen’s College, Cambridge

 

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