Research

Visiting Fellows 2008 - 2009

Post-doctoral Fellows

Misty Anderson
University of Tennessee
Enthusiastic Methods: Methodism and the Eighteenth-Century Imagination

Davide Lombardo
New York University in Florence, Italy
Picturing the Metropolis, London 1800-1830

Matthew McCormack
University of Northampton, UK
A Cultural History of the New Militia, 1757-1792

Tobias Menely
Willamette University
Sympathy's Kingdom: Sentimental Culture and the Birth of Animal Rights

LWL-ASECS Fellow
John Sainsbury
Brock University
Libertines, the State, and the Public Sphere: From Lord Rochester to Lord Byron

Nancy Siegel
Juniata College
Bodily Functions as Body Politic: Scenes of Protest in Eighteenth-Century British Prints

Roger W. Eddy Fellow
Mark R.M. Towsey
University of St. Andrews
"The Historical Age" : Audiences for History in Britain, 1750-1835

Chloe Wigston Smith
University of Georgia
Practical Habits: Clothes, Gender, and the History of the Novel

Charles J. Cole Fellow
Jerry White
Birkbeck, University of London
London in the Eighteenth Century

Pre-doctoral Fellows

Froukje Henstra
Leyden University Centre for Linguistics
The Spelling of Horace Walpole and his Correspondents: Spelling Variation in a Social Network Context

George B. Cooper Fellow
Russell S. Taylor Stoermer
University of Virginia
From Constitutional Sense to Revolutionary Sensibility: The Political Transformation of British Virginia, 1714-1776

Jennifer Van Horn
University of Virginia
The Object of Civility and the Art of Politeness in British America (1740-1780)

Andrew Wells
Merton College, University of Oxford
Sex and Racial Theory in Britain, 1690-1833

Graduate Fellows

Justin du Rivage—History
England, France, North America

Nicole Wright—English
Eighteenth-century Novel, theAnglo-Irish novel, Adjudication/courtroom Trials as Depicted in Literature of the Period, and Character Studies

Past Recipients