Co-Directors
 

	Professor Mark Knights (History): research interests include the political culture of early modern Britain c.1500 - c.1800, with particular interests in the integration of political and social history, the nature of public discourse, the role of print, and the interaction of politics, literature and ideas. He is the author of Representation and Misrepresentation in Later Stuart Britain: Partisanship and Political Culture (OUP, 2005) and The Devil in Disguise: Delusion, Deception and Fanaticism in the Early English Enlightenment (OUP, 2011). He is currently working on early modern corruption and on petitioning cultures. He is deputy head of the History Dept and directs the MA in Eighteenth Century Studies.
	Professor Jon Mee (English and Comparative Literature Studies): research interests include culture and politics in the long romantic period (1760-1832); social romanticism, especially in relation to clubs and societies as a field of literary production; space into place in romantic period London; gender and sociability in the Romantic period; British popular radicalism in the 1790s, especially in relation to politics, print and sociability; literature, censorship, and the law; Marxist literary theory; communicative ethics and literature; William Blake; Anna Laetitia Barbauld; Thomas Paine; Mary Hays; Mary Wollstonecraft; William Godwin, the Joseph Johnson circle and Rational Dissent; Robert Merry

 
Current PhD Students

• Ian Smith, 'Reactions to the French revolution: central and provincial perspectives'
• Susan Law: 'Aristocratic Adultery c.1760-1860'
• Anna Moran: 'The Market for Irish Glass in the Eighteenth Century'
• William Rupp: 'John Byng's Personal World'
• Emma Markiewicz: 'Wigs and Dress Culture in the Eighteenth Century'
• Tim McEvoy: 'Maritime Knowledge: The Maritime Schools of Venice and Portsmouth in the Eighteenth Century'

 
Completed PhD Students

• Helen Cowie: 'Natural History in the Spanish Empire 1750-1850'
• Daive Dunkley: 'The Idea of Freedom in Jamaica before the Abolition of Slavery'
• Sarah Easterby-Smith: 'Natural history collecting and commerce in Britain and France, c. 1750-1800'
• Kat Foxhall: 'Disease and Sea Voyages: Britain and Australia 1780-1880'
• Philippa Hubbard (Leverhulme): 'Eighteenth Century Advertising: the trade card in Britain and America'
• Lydia Plath: 'Rumours of Slave Rebellion in the Antebellum South'
• Kate Smith: 'Perceptions and Constructions of Workmanship in Eighteenth-Century British Culture'
• Tom Rodgers: 'Terror in the Southern Colonies during the American Revolutionary War'

 
Staff Associated with the Centre

• Professor Maxine Berg (History): current research on the history of consumer culture focusing on product innovation, imitation and invention. Director of the project ‘Selling Consumption: Advertising and the Trade Card in the Eighteenth Century’, until 2008, Director of the project ‘Marvels in the Marketplace: the Germanic trade cards at Waddesdon Manor’, and Director of the project ‘Europe's Asian Centuries, Trading Eurasia 1600-1830’. Recent publications connected with the Centre include ‘In Pursuit of Luxury: Global Origins of British Consumer Goods in the Eighteenth Century’, Past and Present, 182, 2004; Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain (OUP, 2005), and ‘Advertising and the Trade Card in the Eighteenth Century’, Cultural & Social History, 2007 (with Helen Clifford).
• Professor Margot Finn (History): research focuses on the intersections among social, cultural, legal and economic experience in modern Britain and in the wider colonial situation. Current research project entitled: ‘Colonial Family Formations: Domestic Strategies in British India, 1780-1850’
• Dr Giorgio Riello (History): research focuses on material culture in a global perspective.
• Dr Claudia Stein (History): current research focuses on the medical world of eighteenth-century Enlightened Bavaria explored through an investigation of the social and professional lives of medical practitioners attached to Munich court. Also working with Roger Cooter (UCL), on the visualisation of medical practices in Germany and Britain.
• Dr Katherine Astbury (French): research interests include 'non-political' fiction of the 1790s as a response to the trauma of the Revolution and the questions of literary history and literary influence. Author of The Moral Tale in France and Germany 1750-1789 (Voltaire Foundation, 2002).
• Dr Rosie Dias (History of Art): current research interests include exhibition culture and urban contexts for art in the eighteenth century; national identity and the visual arts; print culture in the Georgian period; and the relationship between word and image.
• Professor Ann Hallamore Caesar (Italian): research interests include 19^th and 20^th century narrative; Pirandello and the history of women's reading. Author of Characters and Authors in Luigi Pirandello (OUP, 1998)
• Professor Michael Rosenthal (History of Art): research focuses on British social and cultural histories of art. Current project explores art and travel, and colonial art in general, with particular reference to Australia 1788-1940; currently writing a book on picture-making in early colonial Australia.
• Professor Jenny Uglow (English): Honorary Professor in the English Department and an Associate of the Eighteenth-Century Centre. Author of Hogarth (1997), The Lunar Men (2002).
• Professor Jacqueline Labbe (English): Professor in the English Department: research interests lie in the poetry and prose of the Romantic period and nineteenth century childrens' literature.
• Professor Jon Mee (English): Culture and politics in the long romantic period (1760-1832); social romanticism; space into place in romantic period London; gender and sociability in the Romantic period; British popular radicalism in the 1790s, especially in relation to its print and social culture.
• Dr David O'Shaughnessy (English): C18th drama and radical literature.
• Dr Helen Clifford (History): Museum Consultant for the ERC-funded project 'Europe's Asian Centuries, Trading Eurasia 1600-1830'. Works on seventeenth and eighteenth century silver, particularly networks of manufacture and methods of sale. As a quarter-time Senior Research Fellow at Warwick, she has special responsibility for collaborative projects running between Warwick and Waddesdon Manor. She is a freelance writer and exhibitions curator. Publications include Silver in London: The Parker and Wakelin Partnership 1760-76 (Yale, 2004). She curates the Swaledale Museum in Reeth, North Yorkshire - a local collection exploring lead mining and social history. She also teaches for the V&A/RCA MA in conservation, and is an External Examiner for the National College of Art and Design in Dublin. She is a Freeman of the Goldsmiths' Company and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
• Dr Felicia Gottman (History): Research Fellow for the ERC-funded project 'Europe's Asian Centuries, Trading Eurasia 1600-1830'
• Dr Hanna Hodacs (History): Research Fellow for the ERC-funded project 'Europe's Asian Centuries, Trading Eurasia 1600-1830'
• Dr Jan Nierstrasz (History): Research Fellow for the ERC-funded project 'Europe's Asian Centuries, Trading Eurasia 1600-1830'

Previous Staff at the Centre