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This windswept picture of me drinking tea was taken in April 2007 on top of
Barrow, a hill overlooking Derwent Water in Cumbria. I am gazing towards
Keswick, the town which was home to Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert
Southey. Gazing and wandering, especially in the English Lakes, are
activities particularly associated with Romanticism. Drinking tea, on the
other hand, can be accomplished with ease by poets of any stamp or
affiliation.
education | employment |
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given
Education
- 1992-95:
Goldsmiths'
College, University of London
BA with First Class Honours in English and History. Dissertation title:
The Sea, Seamen, and English Literature; 1700-1750.
- 1995-96:
School of English and
Drama, Queen Mary, University of London.
MA in 'Modern English Studies: Writing and Society, 1700-1820'.
Dissertation title: The Poetry of Anti-Slavery; 1787-94.
- 1996-2000:
School of English and
Drama, Queen Mary, University of London.
PhD, supervised by Dr Markman Ellis.
Thesis title: The Rhetoric of Sensibility: Argument, Sentiment, and
Slavery in the Late Eighteenth Century. [Read
More]
- From 2009:
The Open University
I am studying part-time towards a BSc degree in Natural Sciences with the
Open University. In addition to modules in basic life sciences (biology and
biochemistry), I am taking modules in environment, evolution, and ecology. I
am currently taking courses at undergraduate level 3.
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Current Employment:
- From August 2013:
Professor of English Literature, School of Humanities, Kingston University,
Surrey, United Kingdom.
- October 2006 - July 2013:
Reader in English Literature, School of Humanities, Kingston University,
Surrey, United Kingdom.
- January 2001 - September 2006:
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in English, School of Humanities, Kingston
University, Surrey, United Kingdom.
- Undergraduate Teaching: I have taught on, contributed to, or am
developing the following courses:
- LEVEL ONE: 'Aspects of English'; 'Reading Fiction'; 'Foundations of
Poetry and Drama'; 'Writing With Style'.
- LEVEL TWO: 'Advanced Research Skills'; 'Critical Introduction to English
Literature'; 'Gothic Fiction'; 'Romantic Vision'; 'Satire and Sentiment:
Eighteenth-century Literature'.
- LEVEL THREE: 'Empire and Literature, 1600-1800'; 'Literary London';
'Critical Introduction to World Writing in English'; 'Jane Austen'; 'Writing
and Environment'.
- Postgraduate Teaching:
- I am the Director of Graduate Research
- I have taught on Kingston's MA in Nineteenth-Century Literature, MA in
Popular Literature, and MA in English Literature
- MA modules I have taught include 'Empire and its Aftermath', 'Gender and
Sexuality', 'British Science Fiction', 'Imagining Empire', 'Research Skills
I: Foundations of Postgraduate Study' and 'Research Skills II: Extended
Postgraduate Skills'
- I led the team that created and validated Kingston's current MA in
English Literature
- I run the postgraduate research skills seminars.
- I have supervised to completion two MA by Research students and one PhD
student.
- I am currently supervising one PhD student whose thesis is on women in
the eighteenth-century black community in London.
- I am currently leading a Research Informed Teaching project to produce a
large body of on-line research skills training materials for English and
Creative Writing.
- Research Degree Completions:
- Claire Jones, ‘A Pretty Choice Set of Devils’: The Actress in the
Eighteenth Century (MA by Research and Dissertation, 2006)
- Rahul Sharma, John Keats and the Gradation Principle (MA by
Research and Dissertation, 2008)
- Jarrad Keyes, The Logics of Dissolution: Delineating the Urban
Problematic in Contemporary British Literature (PhD, 2010)
- Management: I hold or have held the following management roles:
- Director of Graduate Research (current)
- Chair, Module Review and Development Committee (current)
- Member, English Research Strategy Committee (current)
- Member, Faculty Research Committee (current)
- Member, Faculty Research Degrees Committee (current)
- Postgraduate Research Student Co-ordinator for English Literature and
Creative Writing
- Admissions Tutor for English Literature and Languages
- Team Leader, validation and development of new MA in English Literature
- Member, English Curriculum Review Committee
- Member, Faculty Equipment Review Board
- Member, English Module Guide Review Committee
- Member, Faculty E-learning Committee
- Many other ad hoc management roles
Previous Employment:
- Autumn 2000 - Spring 2003:
Sessional Course Teacher, Institute of English Studies, University of London.
- Course Title: MA in 'New and International Literatures in English'. I
taught eighteenth-century Irish literature.
- Autumn 1999 - Spring 2002: Course Tutor; Birkbeck College
Students' Union, University of London.
- Course Title: 'Skills for Study'. (Study skills for undergraduate and
postgraduate students.)
- Autumn 1998 - Autumn 2000: Graduate Teaching Assistant, Queen
Mary, University of London.
- Course Titles: 'The Emergence of Gothic fiction: 1760-1825' and 'Writing
Empire; 1688-1807'
- Autumn 1996 - Spring 1997: Private Tutor (Agency: London Tutors).
English History (1750-1945) to A'
Level.
Between leaving school and going to university, a seven-year period, I had
several jobs, ranging from the mundane to the (almost) exciting. While
studying, I worked part-time. My work experience in these periods included:
- 1989-92: Deputy Manager of the Wizard Wine Warehouse, Croydon.
- 1988-89: maintaining fish-smoking kilns and sausage-making
machines for the now defunct Team Equipment, Surrey.
- 1987-88: social action broadcasting with the Radio Trent Careline,
Nottingham.
- And variously: erecting the big top for the Spanish National
Circus during their tour of England, odd jobs and gardening, bar and
restaurant work in England, Germany, and Denmark, working in posh shops such
as Heals and Oddbins, drudgery such as filling shelves for Boots, Tesco,
Kwiksave, etc, etc.
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Publications
Monographs:
Edited Books and Journals:
- 'Olaudah Equiano: African or American?', edited special feature in
1650-1850: Ideas, Æsthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era,
vol 17 (2010). Includes essays by Sarah Brophy, Brycchan Carey, Angelo
Costanzo, Tara Czechowski, and Shaun Regan. ISBN 0 4046 4417 1. [More
Information]
- Slavery and Antislavery: a Special Edition of the Journal for
Eighteenth-Century Studies, 31:2 (June 2008). Edited with an introduction
by Brycchan Carey.
- Slavery and the Cultures of Abolition: Essays Marking the British
Abolition Act of 1807 (Essays and Studies in Romanticism Series, 2007),
edited with an introduction by Brycchan Carey and Peter Kitson (Woodbridge:
Boydell and Brewer, 2007). ISBN 1 8438 4120 7. [More Information]
- Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Britain and its Colonies, 1760-
1838, eds. Brycchan Carey, Markman Ellis, and Sara Salih (Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). ISBN 1 4039 1647 0. [More Information]
In addition to co-
editing the work, I contribute two parts:
- 'Introduction' (with Sara Salih), pp. 1-8.
- Chapter: '"The hellish means of Killing and Kidnapping": Ignatius Sancho
and the Campaign Against the "abominable traffic for slaves"', pp. 81-95.
Articles in Refereed Journals:
- 'Olaudah Equiano: African or American?', in 1650-1850: Ideas,
Æsthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, vol 17 (2010): 229-48.
[More
Information]
- '"Equiano was a Christian? Who knew?": Teaching Secular Histories of the
British Abolition Movement' in Religion, Secularity and Cultural
Agency, eds. Anton Kirchhofer and Richard Stinshoff, Vol 74 of
anglistik & englischunterricht (2010): 55-78
- ‘The Barbadian Origins of Quaker Antislavery’ in ARIEL: A Review of
International English Literature, 38:1 (January 2007), 27-47. [ARIEL Home Page]
- 'Slavery and Romanticism' in Literature Compass: Romanticism Edited by Elizabeth
Fay and Sharon Ruston, Volume 3, Issue 3 (2006): 397-408, 10.1111/j.1741-
4113.2006.00327.x. [Read this
article]
- Also: 'Teaching & Learning Guide for: "Slavery and Romanticism"' in
Literature Compass
Volume 4, Issue 6 (2007): 1683-1688, 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2007.00495.x. [Read this article]
- 'John Wesley's "Thoughts Upon Slavery" and the Language of the Heart',
The Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester,
85:2-3 (Summer/Autumn 2003), 269-84. (This edition of the Bulletin is
a special issue, subtitled: John Wesley: Tercentenary Essays. Proceedings
of a Conference held at the University of Manchester, June 2003, edited
by Jeremy Gregory.) [1. Read this article] [2. Bulletin Home Page]
- 'William Wilberforce's Sentimental Rhetoric: Parliamentary Reportage and
the Abolition Speech of 1789', The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual,
14 (2003), 281-305. [1. Read this article] [2. The Age of
Johnson Home Page]
- '"The extraordinary Negro": Ignatius Sancho, Joseph Jekyll, and the
Problem of Biography', British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies,
26, 2 (Spring 2003), 1-13. [1. Read this article]
[2. BSECS Home Page]
Book Chapters:
- ‘To Force a Tear: Antislavery on the Eighteenth-
Century London Stage’, in Affect and Abolition in the Anglo-Atlantic: 1770-1830, ed Stephen Ahern (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013), pp. 109-128.
- ‘“The worse than Negro barbarity of the populace”: Ignatius Sancho
witnesses the Gordon Riots’, in The Gordon Riots and British Culture,
ed Ian Haywood (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2011), pp. 144–61.
- ‘Slavery and Abolition’, in Samuel Johnson in Context, ed. Jack
Lynch (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. 352-9.
- 'A Stronger Muse: Classical Influences on Eighteenth-Century Abolitionist
Poetry' in Ancient Slavery and Abolition: From Hobbes to Hollywood ed
Richard Alston, Edith Hall, and Justine McConnell (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2011), pp. 125-52. [More from OUP]
- 'Slavery, Empire, Race', in Teaching Romanticism, ed. David
Higgins and Sharon Ruston (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), pp. 75-87.
[More from Palgrave Macmillan]
- 'Inventing a Culture of Antislavery: Pennsylvania Quakers and the
Germantown Protest of 1688' in Imagining Transatlantic Slavery ed.
Cora Kaplan and John Oldfield (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), pp.
17-32. [More from Palgrave Macmillan]
- 'Hermione and the House-Elves Revisited: J. K. Rowling, Antislavery
Campaigning, and the Politics of Potter’, in Reading Harry Potter Again:
New Critical Essays, ed. Giselle Liza Anatol, (Santa Barbara: Praeger
Publishers, 2009), pp. 159-73 [More from
Praeger Publishers]
- '"Accounts of Savage Nations": The Spectator and the Americas', in
Uncommon Reflections: Emerging Discourses in 'The Spectator', ed. Don
Newman (Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2005), pp. 129-49. [This
article was awarded the Society of Early Americanists' Annual Essay Writing
Prize, 2004]
- '"The hellish means of Killing and Kidnapping": Ignatius Sancho and the
Campaign Against the "abominable traffic for slaves"', in Discourses of
Slavery and Abolition, as above, pp. 81-95. [Read more]
- 'Hermione and the House Elves: the Literary and Historical Context of
J.K.Rowling's Anti-slavery Campaign', in Reading Harry Potter:
Critical Essays (Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture, No. 78),
ed. Giselle Liza Anatol, (Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2003), pp. 103-
115. [More from Greenwood Press]
Review Articles:
- 'The Depiction of the Slave Trade in Children's Books' in Books For
Keeps, 166 (September 2007), 3-5.
- 'Slavers'. An article length review of Kenneth Morgan, et al, eds,
The British Transatlantic Slave Trade, 4 Vols (London: Pickering and
Chatto, 2003), in History Workshop Journal, 64 (Autumn 2007), 382-9.
[1. Read this Article] [2. History Workshop
Journal Home Page]
Other Academic Publications, Including Journalism, Popular and Local
History, and Websites:
- 'Guernsey and the Slave Trade: A Reassessment' in Report and
Transactions of La Société Guernesiaise, XXVII (2008), 360-74.
- 'The Pennsylvanian Origins of British Abolitionism' in The
Historian (Spring 2007), 6-11.
- 'Olaudah Equiano: an African Slave in Guernsey' in The Review of the
Guernsey Society, 59, 2 (Summer 2003), 47-50. [1. Read this article] [2. Guernsey Society Home Page]
- Brycchan Carey, 'Website', created August 1999,
http://www.brycchancarey.com/
Over 120 pages at present, on a wide range of academic and general topics. I
currently receive around 25,000 hits per month across my main pages.
Articles in Works of Reference:
- 'Olaudah Equiano'. Entry in African American National Biography,
eds. Henry Louis Gates Jr. et al, 8 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2008), VI, pp. 191-3.
- 'Olaudah Equiano'. Entry in Gift of Story and Song: An Encyclopedia of
African-American Literature, ed. Wilfred Samuels (New York: Facts on
File, 2007), pp. 170-71.
- Three entries in The Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition in
the Transatlantic World, ed. Junius P. Rodriguez, 3 vols (Armonk, NY:
M.E. Sharpe, 2007).
- 'Francis Hargrave', II, p. 285.
- 'Beilby Porteus', II, pp. 428-9.
- 'James Ramsay', II, pp. 446-8.
- Two entries in The
Literary Encyclopedia
- Three entries in The Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850,
ed Chistopher John Murray, 2 vols (New York and London: Fitzroy Dearborn,
2004).
- 'Thomas Day', I, pp. 265-6
- 'Slavery and Emancipation', II, pp. 1057-9
- 'Ann Yearsley', II, pp. 1239-40
- Two entries in C18th Bibliographies Online, ed. Jack Lynch, for The
International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies,
- 'Ignatius Sancho', in The Encyclopedia of Life Writing:
Autobiographical and Biographical Forms, 2 vols,
ed. Margaretta Jolly (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001), II, pp. 775-76.
Reviews:
- Review of: Karina Williamson, Contrary Voices: Representations of West
Indian Slavery, 1657-1834 (Kingston, JA: University of the West Indies
Press, 2008) in Forum for Modern Language Studies 2010; doi:
10.1093/fmls/cqq067. Read this review
- Review of: Felicity A. Nussbaum, The Limits of the Human: Fictions of
Anomaly, Race, and Gender in the Long Eighteenth Century (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2003), in The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly
Annual, 17 (2006), 461-63. [The Age of
Johnson Home Page]
- Review of: Marcus Wood, Slavery, Empathy, and Pornography (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2002) in BARS Bulletin and Review, 26
(September 2004), 34-5
[BARS
Home Page]
- Review of: J.R. Piggot, Palace of the People: the Crystal Palace at
Sydenham, 1854-1936 (London: Hurst and Company, 2004) in Literary
London: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Representation of London, online
at Literary London.
- Review of: James G. Basker (ed.), Amazing Grace: an Anthology of Poems
about Slavery, 1660-1810 (New Haven and London: Yale
University Press, 2002) in The New Rambler: the Journal of the Johnson
Society
of London, E VI (2002-3), 78-80. [Johnson Society
of London Home Page]
- Review of: Helen Thomas, Romanticism and Slave Narratives:
Transatlantic Testimonies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000)
in BARS Bulletin and Review, 22 (September 2002), 20-21.
[BARS
Home Page]
- Review of: Charlotte Sussman, Consuming Anxieties: Consumer
Protest, Gender, and British Slavery, 1713-1833 (Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 2000) in Gender and History, 14, 1 (April 2002),
160-161.
[Gender and History Home Page]
Forthcoming (Contracted) Publications:
- Edited Book: Quakers and Abolition, eds Brycchan Carey and Geoffrey Plank (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, forthcoming 2013). Status: in production.
- Journal Article: ‘”Such is Bristol’s soul”: Re-reading Ann
Yearsley’s Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave Trade’ Tulsa Studies in
Women’s Literature (forthcoming autumn 2013)
In Preparation:
- Edited Book: Early Caribbean Literary History. This book
will appear as a project of the Early Caribbean Society. I am one of the
three co-editors, with Thomas Krise and Nicole Aljoe. Status: under review.
- Book Chapter: 'Aphra Behn, the Moon, and the Atlantic World'.
Status: under review.
- Monograph: Slavery and the Idea of Nature. A monograph in which I
explore the relationship between eighteenth and nineteenth-century antislavery
ideas and the development of an environment consciousness. Status: research and writing in progress.
- Journal Article: 'Slavery in the Cornish Literary Imagination'.
Status: planned future work.
- Monograph: Slavery and the British Literary Imagination. A
monograph which examines the ways in which slavery and the slave trade were
imagined and written about in Britain's regions. Status: planned future work.
- Biography: Ignatius Sancho: London, Life, and Letters. A
biography of Ignatius Sancho looking at the part he played in London life and
in the world of letters. Status: planned future work.
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Editorial and Peer Review
Editorial:
- Assistant Editor of Literary London: Interdisciplinary Studies in the
Representation of London
This e-journal provides a common forum for scholars and students engaged
specifically in the study of London and literature.
Literary London: Journal Homepage
- Member of the editorial board: Continuum Studies in Urban literature.
- Member of the editorial board for the journal Gaceta de Estudios del Siglo XVIII (Gazette of Eighteenth-Century Studies), published by El Grupo de Estudios del Siglo XVIII, Facultad de Filología de la Universidad de Salamanca (Eighteenth-Century Studies Group, Faculty of Philology, University of Salamanca, Spain).
Peer Review:
- I have reviewed manuscript articles for the following journals:
Atlantic Studies; Auto/Biography; Eighteenth-Century
Fiction; Eighteenth-Century Studies; The European Romantic
Review; Literary London; The Journal for Eighteenth-Century
Studies; Literature Compass; The Scandinavian Journal of
History; Studies in Travel Writing; Trends in Ecology &
Evolution; Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature.
- I have reviewed book manuscripts and/or proposals for the following
publishers: Broadview Press; Oxford University Press; Routledge; University
of Missippippi Press.
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Media
Radio and Television Appearances:
- Television Interview: 'Marking the Abolition of the British Slave
Trade', BBC World News
Broadcast: BBC World TV on 27 March 2007, 17.40 GMT (Live).
- Radio Interview: 'Slavery in Cornwall', Pirate FM News
Broadcast: Pirate FM News (Cornwall, UK) on 25 March 2007, repeated hourly.
- Radio Interview: 'Slavery in Guernsey', BBC Radio Guernsey
News
Broadcast: BBC Radio Guernsey News (Guernsey) on 26 March 2007. Short version
at 8.25am; long version at 10.05am.
- Radio Interview: 'Slavery and Abolition in Cambridgeshire', BBC
Radio Cambridgeshire
Broadcast: 'The Afternoon Show' on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire (Cambridge, UK)
on 19 March 2007, 3pm-4pm (Live).
- Radio Interview: ‘Olaudah Equiano’ on Making History,
presented by Sue Cook
Broadcast: BBC Radio 4 (UK) on 6 April 2004, 3pm.
- 1987-88: I worked for one year as a 'Community Link Worker' with
the social action broadcasting team Radio Trent Careline in Nottingham.
Careline is attached to the local commercial station Radio Trent (now
TrentFM), and makes regular broadcasts on community issues while also
offering a telephone helpline. I made daily live and prerecorded radio
broadcasts, including interviewing community members and leaders. Visit
Careline Online
Print Media:
- Newspaper Article: 'A Shameful History', by Chris Morvan
The Guernsey Press and Star, (23 March 2007), p.21. Morvan's article
discusses and cites from my work on Equiano in Guernsey.
- Newspaper Interview: 'The stars, the moon and music from a
balloon: rising stars in the arts', by Anna Fazackerley
The Times Higher Education Supplement, 1,755 (11 August 2006), pp.8-9.
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Awards, Prizes, Qualifications, Affiliations, Fellowships, and Indicators
of Esteem
Professional Qualifications:
- 2003: Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher
Education.
Prizes:
Awards:
- 2013: Leverhulme Research Fellowship. £44,472 to support
one year's leave to research Slavery and Environmental Consciousness in British Colonial Writing, 1660–1840.
- 2010: British Academy Overseas Conference Grant. £500 to support
travel to the conference of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, in March 2010.
- 2010: Arts and Humanities Research Council Research Leave Grant.
£29,392 to support the completion of my project 'Quaker Rhetoric and
Transatlantic Antislavery, 1657-1761'
- 2007: British Academy 'Overseas Conference Grant'. £500 to support
my attendance at The Fourth Annual Conference of the Association for the
Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD), University of the West
Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados, in October 2007.
- 2005: British Academy 'British Conference Grant'. A substantial
cash award to support the conference Literary London 2005.
- 2005/06: HEFCE 'Promising Researchers Fellowship Scheme'. A
substantial cash award to support a twelve-month fellowship at the University
of Pennsylvania.
- 2005: British Academy 'Overseas Conference Grant'. A cash award to
support my attendance at The Thirty-sixth Annual Meeting of the American
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Las Vegas, USA, in March 2005.
- 2004: British Academy 'Overseas Conference Grant'. £225 to support
my attendance at The Thirty-fifth Annual Meeting of the American Society
for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, in March
2004.
- 2003: British Academy 'Overseas Conference Grant'. £640 to support
my attendance at The Eleventh International Congress on the
Enlightenment, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA, in August 2003.
- 2003: British Academy 'British Conference Grant'. A substantial
cash award to support the conference Olaudah Equiano: Representation and
Reality.
- 2002: Sabbatical, awarded from the competitive Kingston University
Research Investment Fund. This research leave was awarded in addition to the
faculty's existing sabbatical scheme.
- 2001: British Academy 'British Conference Grant'. A substantial
cash award to support the conference Discourses of Slavery and Abolition:
Writing in Britain and its Colonies, 1660-1838.
- 1996-1999: British Academy three-year PhD studentship.
- 1995-1996: British Academy one-year MA studentship.
Fellowships:
- 2005/06: Research Associate of the McNeil Center for Early
American Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
- 2005/06: HEFCE 'Promising Researchers Fellowship Scheme'. To
support the above.
Membership of Professional Associations:
- Elected Officer: British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
[BSECS Home Page]
- I have been the society's Treasurer since January 2010.
- I was the academic organiser of the annual meeting of the society for
three years between 2007 and 2009.
- Committee member from 2006
- Elected Officer: The Literary London Society. [LLS Home Page]
- I have been the society's President since July 2011.
- Member: British Association for Romantic Studies [BARS Home Page]
- Member: The Society of Early Americanists [SEA Home
Page]
- Member: The Early Caribbean Society [ECS Home Page]
- Member: The Association for the Study of Literature and the
Environment (UK) [ASLE-UK Home
Page]
External and Consultancy:
- 2006: External Advisor for the MA in London Studies at the
University of Westminster
- 2007: Advisor to the Royal Mail over the design of postage stamps
commemorating the abolition of the slave trade
- 2011: External Examiner for George Newberry's PhD thesis on
"Representations of Race in British Science and Culture" at Sheffield
University, June 2011.
- 2012 External Advisor for the MA in Literary London at Greenwich
University
- 2012-2016: External Examiner for the BA in English Literature at
the University of Northumbria
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Conferences Organised
- Quakers and Slavery: An International Interdisciplinary
Conference
I was one of the two principal organisers of this conference, co-hosted by
the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, Swarthmore College, and
Haverford College in November 2010
- Literary London: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Representation of
London
Between 2003 and 2011, I was one of the co-ordinating team for this annual
conference for scholars and students engaged in the study of London and
literature. I was partly or mainly responsible for organising Literary London
conferences at Goldsmiths' College, University of London (2003), the
Institute of English Studies, University of London (2004), Kingston
University, London (2005), the University of Greenwich (2006), the University
of Westminster (2007), Brunel University (2008), Queen Mary, University of
London (2009), and the Institute of English Studies, University of London
(2010 and 2011). In 2011, I was elected President of the new Literary London
Society, and from then onwards I delegated responsibility for organising
future conferences.
- British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
The BSECS conference is a major event, attracting 400-500 scholars from
around the world. It is hosted by St Hugh's College, Oxford. I was the
academic organiser of the annual meeting of the society for three years
between 2007 and 2009.
- Olaudah Equiano: Representation and Reality
I conceived and organised this major international conference, held at
Kingston University on Saturday 22 March 2003. The conference was supported
by an award from the British Academy. Some of the papers have appeared
together as 'Olaudah Equiano: African or American?', an edited special
feature in 1650-1850: Ideas, Æsthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern
Era, vol 17 (2010). Includes essays by Sarah Brophy, Brycchan Carey,
Angelo Costanzo, Tara Czechowski, and Shaun Regan. ISBN 0 4046 4417 1. Click here for
more information
- Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its
Colonies, 1660-1838
I conceived and organised this major international conference, held at
The Institute of English Studies, University of London, on 6-7 April 2001.
The conference was supported by an award from the British Academy. Some of
the papers from this conference appeared in Discourses of Slavery and
Abolition: Britain and its Colonies, 1760-1838, eds. Brycchan Carey,
Markman Ellis, and Sara Salih (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). ISBN 1
4039 1647 0. Click here for more
information
- Ignatius Sancho: Sensibility and Abolition: A Day
Conference.
I conceived and organised this international one-day
conference, held on Saturday 20 March 1999 at Queen Mary, University of
London.
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Papers and Presentations
Here, I include all the papers and presentations I have given, or have agreed
to give in the future. I include both academic papers, and presentations to
schools and community groups.
2013:
- ‘Wheatfield, Parkland, or Wetland? The Ecology of Oliver Goldsmith’s Deserted Village’
At The Bill Overton Memorial Conference on Eighteenth-Century Poetry, Loughborough University (September)
- ‘Personal Revolution: National Evolution. How acts of resistance by enslaved people changed British attitudes towards slavery’
At the ISECS Evolutions and Revolutions in the Eighteenth Century International Seminar, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands (August)
- ‘Remembering Slavery in the Novel after 2007: Blonde Roots and The Long Song’
At Encounters, Affinities, Legacies: The Eighteenth Century in the Present Day, York University (June)
- ‘Anthony Benezet’s Sentimental Rhetoric’
At The Atlantic World of Anthony Benezet conference, Université Paris Diderot, France (May)
- ‘Space, Time and Monsters: A Billion Years of Science Fiction in Films, Books, and TV’
At Gamlingay Library, Cambridgeshire (May)
- ‘Talking Birds, a Maroon Republic, and a Voyage to the Moon: The Mysterious Caribbean Island of Cacklogallinia’
At The 44th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies, Cleveland, Ohio, USA (March)
- ‘From Peace to Freedom: American Quakers and the First Campaign against the Slave Trade, 1657–1758’
At the Wimbledon Quaker Studies Group (March)
- ‘International Approaches to Early American Studies’
At The Conference of the Society of Early Americanists, Savannah, Georgia, USA (February)
- ‘An Act to prevent the importation of Negroes and Indian slaves: How serious were the Pennsylvania Assembly about banning the slave trade in 1711?’
At the Kingston Law School Resesearch Seminar (January)
2012:
- ‘From Peace to Freedom: American Quakers and the First Campaign against the Slave Trade, 1657–1758’
At the University of Surrey English Research Seminar (November)
- ‘“The Grief of Divers Friends”. Quaker Rhetoric and the Origins of the Transatlantic Antislavery Movement.’
At the Roehampton University English Research Seminar (October)
- ‘From Peace to Freedom: Colonial Quakers and the Origins of the Antislavery International, 1657–1758’
At the University of Plymouth English Research Seminar (October)
- 'The Origins of the Gothic'
At the Godalming College Schools Gothic Conference, Surrey (September)
- ‘Ralph Sandiford and Benjamin Lay: Avant-garde Abolitionists or Irrelevant Madmen?’
At The British Group of Early American Historians Conference, University of St Andrews (September)
- ‘From Peace to Freedom: Colonial Quakers and the Origins of the
Antislavery International, 1657–1758’
At the International Slavery Museum, Liverpool (May)
- “‘To Friends beyond sea’, or, how London Quakers and Philadelphia Quakers
played politics by mail”
At The 43nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies, San Antonio, Texas, USA (March)
- ‘“The Grief of Divers Friends”, or, How Eighteenth-Century Quakers Turned
Against Slavery’
At the Bucks Historical Association, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire (February)
- ‘From Peace to Freedom: Colonial Quakers and the Origins of the
Antislavery International, 1657–1758’
At the Institute for the Study of Slavery, University of Nottingham
(February)
- ‘From Wheatfield to Wetland: the Ecology of Auburn in Oliver Goldsmith’s
Deserted Village’.
At The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference, St.
Hugh’s College, Oxford (January)
2011:
- '"The Grief of Divers Friends". Quaker Rhetoric and the Origins of the
Transatlantic
Antislavery Movement
At The Thirteenth International Congress on the Enlightenment,
Graz, Austria (July)
- Invited Plenary Speaker
'"To Force a Tear": British Abolitionism and the Eighteenth-century
Stage.'
At the BSECS Graduate Conference, Cambridge (June)
- 'When no man was his own: the Caribbean as transformative space in the
writings of Ralph Sandiford and Benjamin Lay'
At The 42nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-
Century Studies, Vancouver, Canada (March)
- Invited Speaker: The Joseph
S. Schick Lecture in Language, Literature, and Lexicography
'“We are against the traffik of men-body”: re-reading the 1688 Germantown
Quaker protest against slavery'
Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana, USA (January)
- 'First Impressions: Mary Leapor's Crumble-Hall'
At The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual
Conference, St. Hugh's College, Oxford (January)
2010:
- 'Voices in the Wilderness or a Loud Conversation? Rethinking The Early
Quaker Debate about Slavery'
At the Quaker History Group, Friends House, London (October)
- 'Outer space on the London stage: Aphra Behn’s Emperor of the Moon'
At Literary London 2010, Institute of English Studies, University
of London (July)
- 'Lunar Geese, Celestial Dew, and the Emperor of the Moon: Five Centuries
of (Imaginary) Interplanetary Exploration'
At the University of Vienna, Austria (May)
- Friends of the Oppressed: how a small group of American Quakers took the
first stand against slavery
At the Kingston Readers' Festival, Kingston-upon-Thames (May)
- '"These poor afflicted, tormented miserable Slaves!": Quaker discussions
of the feelings of slaves in early Philadelphia'
at The 41st Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-
Century Studies, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA (March)
- '"The power that giveth liberty and freedom": Uncovering the Origins of
the Quaker Antislavery International'
At the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation,
University of Hull (February)
- '"A new discovery of a new world": the Moon and America.'
At The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual
Conference, St. Hugh's College, Oxford (January)
2009:
- '"We contradict & are against this traffick of men-body": re-reading the
first protest against the slave trade, Germantown, 1688.'
At the School of English Research Seminar, University of St Andrews
(November)
- 'Lunar Geese, Celestial Dew, and the Emperor of the Moon: Five Centuries
of (Imaginary) Interplanetary Exploration'
At the Kingston Readers' Festival, Kingston-upon-Thames (May)
- Invited Plenary Speaker
'"You surpass Holland and Germany in this thing": The Transatlantic
Implications of the 1688 Germantown Declaration'
At The Collegium for African American Research Annual Conference,
Breman, Germany (April)
- 'Abolishing the Slave Trade on the London Stage, 1760-1807'
At the Museum of London in Docklands (March)
- '"The power that giveth liberty and freedom": the American prehistory of
the British abolition movement'
At the University of Northampton English Seminar (February)
- 'Literature and British Abolitionism: 1660-1807'
At the University of Pau, France (January)
2008:
- Invited Keynote Speaker
'The Moon and America: An Early Modern Conflation'
At Trips to the Moon: Lunar Travel from Lucian to Kubrick, A
Symposium, Royal Holloway, University of London (December)
- 'Equiano was a Christian? Who knew?’: Re-reading Secular Histories of the
British Abolition Movement'
At Postsecular Britain? Religion, Secularity, Cultural Agency,
University of Oldenburg, Germany (November)
- 'A Quiet Rhetoric? Uncovering the Origins of the Quaker Antislavery
International'
At the The Queens' Arts Seminar, Queens' College, Cambridge (October)
- 'Writing the End of the British Slave Trade and British Slavery'
Aux centres "Identités, Cultures, Territoires", EA 337 and Groupe de
Recherche sur l'Eugénisme et le Racisme, Université Paris VII (September)
- 'Liminal Lives: Africans in London, 1500-1800'
At Literary London 2008, Brunel University, London (July)
- '"The worse than Negro barbarity of the populace": Ignatius Sancho
witnesses
the Gordon Riots'
At The Gordon Riots and British Culture: A One Day Conference,
Roehampton University London (July)
- 'Olaudah Equiano and the trauma of enslavement'
At Writing and Trauma: a Literary Symposium, the Rose of Kingston
Theatre (May)
- 'Hermione and the House-elves Revisted: J.K. Rowling, Antislavery
Campaigning, and the Politics of Potter'
At the Kingston Readers' Festival, Kingston-upon-Thames (April)
- 'Olaudah Equiano: the Hackney Connection'
At the Hackney Caribbean Elderly Organisation (March)
- 'Slavery and the Cornish Imagination'
At The University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus, Falmouth (January)
2007:
- Invited Plenary Speaker
'Modern Solutions to an Ancient Problem: Abolishing the British Slave
Trade'
At Slavery and the Classics, Royal Holloway, University of London
(December)
- ‘Lost protests, hidden watermarks, and suspiciously neat handwriting:
abolitionism in manuscript’
At A Triangular Traffic: A Symposium on Literature, Slavery, and the
Archive, University of Dundee (November)
- 'Alice Curwen in Barbados: A Seventeenth-century Quaker Abolitionist?'
At Interrogations of Freedom: Memories, Meanings, Migrations: the
annual meeting of The Association for the Study of the Worldwide African
Diaspora (ASWAD), University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados
(October).
- ‘Black London in the Age of Slavery’
At the Kingston Museum, Kingston-upon-Thames (September)
- ‘New Worlds and Outer Spaces: America and the Moon in Seventeenth-Century
Literature’
At the Colonial and Postcolonial Spaces conference, Kingston
University, London (September)
- Invited Plenary Speaker
'Antislavery on the Eighteenth-Century London Stage'
At Literary London: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Representation of
London: 2007, University of Westminster (July)
- 'America in the Moon, or, the Moon in America: Terrestrial Empires and
Celestial Speculations'
At The Twelth International Congress on the Enlightenment,
Montpellier, France (July)
- 'Truth or Lies ? The Interesting Case of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus
Vassa, the African'
At The Twelth International Congress on the Enlightenment,
Montpellier, France (July)
- '200 years after the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act: What has
changed?'
At the Kingston Racial Equality Council General Council Meeting, Kingston-
upon-Thames (June)
- 'Did Germantown make a difference? Uncovering the origins of Quaker
antislavery'
At Slavery: Unfinished Business, The Wilberforce Institute for the
Study of Slavery and Emancipation, University of Hull. (May)
- 'Slavery and Literature'
At the Kingston Readers' Festival, Kingston-upon-Thames (April)
- ‘Cultures of Abolitionism’
Talk given as part of The Transatlantic Slave Trade series at the
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich (April)
- 'Abolition before abolitionism in Quaker Pennsylvania'
At Abolitions, 1807-2007: ending the slave trade in the transatlantic
world University of York (April)
- 'The 1807 Abolition Act Remembered'
At 'The Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade: an Event' Kingston
University (March)
- 'The Churches and the Slave Trade: an Eighteenth-Century Problem'
At Word and Spirit: 5 Lent lunch time talks about spirituality and
literature, All Saints Church, Kingston-upon-Thames (March)
- 'The First Quaker Protests Against Slavery: George Fox in Barbados'
In the "Cultural Networks" (Early Caribbean Society) session; at The
Thirty-eighth Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (March)
- 'Olaudah Equiano: an Eighteenth-Century African in Cambridgeshire'
At Soham College, Soham, Cambridgeshire (March)
- ‘Inventing the Culture of Antislavery: Quaker Arguments Against Slavery,
1657-1720’
At Imagining Transatlantic Slavery and Abolition, University of
Southampton/Chawton House (March)
- 'The Churches and Slavery'
For the 'Churches Together' group, Kew, London. (February)
- 'Teaching without Electronic Resources: Teaching the Eighteenth Century:
a workshop'
At The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual
Conference, St. Hugh's College, Oxford (January)
2006:
- 'Teaching Literary London in the Suburbs'
At Teaching London: a two-day conference, Centre for Metropolitan
History / University of Westminster (November)
- 'From Guinea to the Fens: Olaudah Equiano in Cambridgeshire'
At Soham College, Soham, Cambridgeshire (October)
- 'Re-thinking the 1688 Germantown Antislavery Protest'
At The British Group in Early American History, St. Anne's
College, Oxford (September)
- '"To Friends beyond sea", or, how London Quakers and Philadelphia Quakers
played politics by mail'
At Literary London: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Representation of
London: 2006, Greenwich University (July)
- '"The power that giveth liberty and freedom": reading the origins of
Quaker antislavery rhetoric'
At The Thirty-seventh Annual Meeting of the
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Montreal, Canada (April)
- Invited Plenary Speaker
'The Quaker Origins of Antislavery'
At Abolition and Freedom, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY,
USA (March)
- 'New Worlds: voyaging the cislunar and transatlantic spaces of the
mind'
At The Annual Meeting of the South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies 2006, Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA (February).
- 'Olaudah Equiano and the St. Giles Blackbirds: Black London in the
Eighteenth Century'
At the Meeting of the Sohemian Society, Soho, London (January)
- '"The New Intangible College": Publishing on the Internet: a workshop'
At The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual
Conference, St. Hugh's College, Oxford (January)
2005:
- 'Friend William Edmundson: the First "Antislavery Apostle"?'
At the 'Alternate Wednesday Brownbag Session' at the McNeil Center for
Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
(December)
- 'Performing Abolition: balladeers, theatricals, and antislavery sentiment
in late eighteenth-century London'.
At The Annual Meeting of the East Central American Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies 2005, Annapolis, Maryland, USA. (October).
- 'One World, Two Lenses: Contrasting Classical and Biblical Approaches to
Antique Slavery in the Late-Eighteenth-Century Abolition Debate'
At The Congress of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada. (October).
- 'Real and Imagined: Harry Potter, Olaudah Equiano, and the Rhetoric of
Antislavery'
At The University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. (October).
- '"Some good ballads to be sung about the streets": William Cowper's
campaign against the slave trade'
At Literary London: Representations of London in Literature: 2005,
Kingston University (July).
- 'Ignatius Sancho: an Eighteenth-Century African Writer in Blackheath'
At Greenwich People, a day event at the National Maritime Museum,
Greenwich (June).
- 'Friends and Societies: Sociability and Antislavery in the
Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World'
At The Thirty-sixth Annual Meeting of the
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Las Vegas, NV, USA
(April)
- Roundtable Respondent in the panel 'Eighteenth-Century Studies and the
World-Wide Web: A Roundtable'"
At The Thirty-sixth Annual Meeting of the
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Las Vegas, NV, USA
(April)
- '"The happy state of West Indian slavery": James Tobin, Gordon Turnbull,
and Sentimental Apologies for Slavery in the 1780s.'
At The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual
Conference, St. Hugh's College, Oxford (January)
2004:
- 'Friends, Methodists, and Good Samaritans: Sentiment and Faith in the
Eighteenth-Century Debate Over the Slave Trade
At the 'Restoration to Reform' Seminar, Mansfield College, Oxford
(November)
- '"That's for Tourists": Teaching London Literature to Londoners'
At The North American Conference for British Studies,
Philadelphia, PA, USA. (October)
- 'Ridiculous Prejudices and Foolish Distinctions: Thomas Day and the
Children’s Campaign Against Slavery'
At Romantic-Era Writing for Children, a Chawton House/Hallam
Corvey conference at the University of London (May)
- 'Potter Politics: Harry, Ron, and Hermione's Long March to Number Ten'
At the Kingston Readers' Festival, Kingston-upon-Thames (May)
- 'Ignatius Sancho: An African Composer in London'
At the Handel House Museum, London (April)
- 'The Disguised Female Voice in The Letters of the Late Ignatius
Sancho, an African'
At The Thirty-fifth Annual Meeting of the
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Boston, MA, USA (March)
- 'Olaudah Equiano and the Channel Islands Slave Trade'
At Displacement, Relocation, Identity:
Revisioning Histories of Slavery and Empire
, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (March)
- 'The First Antislavery Society: Anthony Benezet, Granville Sharp, and
John Wesley'
At The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual
Conference, St. Hugh's College, Oxford (January)
2003:
- 'Marcus Wood's Slavery, Empathy, and Pornography: a reading'
At The Enlightenment and Romanticism Reading Group at the The Institute of
English Studies, University of London (November)
- 'Thomas Day's rhetoric of abolition in verse and prose'
At The Eleventh International Congress on the Enlightenment, UCLA, Los
Angeles, USA (August)
- 'Regicide and Republicanism Foreshadowed?
American Anxieties in "The Spectator" (1711)'
At The Eleventh International Congress on the Enlightenment, UCLA, Los
Angeles, USA (August)
- 'Indian Kings and Merchants of Egypt: the
empire comes to town in Addison and Steele's "Spectator" (1711-1714)'
At Literary London: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Representation of
London: 2003, Goldsmiths' College, University of London (July)
- 'John Wesley's "Thoughts Upon Slavery" and the language of the heart'
At John Wesley: Life, Legend, and Legacy: A Tercentenary Celebration,
Manchester University (June)
- 'Ignatius Sancho and Olaudah Equiano: reading early
Black British life-writing'
English Seminar; Roehampton, University of Surrey (April)
- 'Black Resistance to Slavery in Eighteenth-century London'
At the PurehArt BAST (British Abolition of the Slave Trade) Heritage Images
and Education Project, a part of English Heritage. Hosted by the Cabinet
Office Black and Asian Network, London (March)
- '"While I was in this place...": Olaudah Equiano Writes Local History'
At Olaudah Equiano: Representation and Reality, Kingston University
(March)
- 'Ignatius Sancho: Personal History, Personal Politics'
At the Cambridge University World History Workshop, Cambridge (January)
2002:
- '"My dying eyes o'erflow": sentimental poetry and the abolition of the
slave trade'
At the Corvey Project Research Seminar, Sheffield Hallam University
(November)
- '"In a lilly time me cry": sentiment and the poetry of antislavery in the
late eighteenth century'
At The Inter-University Post-Colonial Studies Seminar at the Institute of
English Studies, University of London (October)
- 'Ignatius Sancho's Literary Communities'
At Literary London: 1660-1830, The English-Speaking Union with The
Cambridge Project for the Book Trust, London (September).
- '"In the epistolary way": the literary geography of "The Letters of the
Late Ignatius Sancho, an African" (1782)'
At Literary London: Representations of London in Literature: 2002,
Goldsmiths' College, University of London (July).
- 'Ignatius Sancho and the Newspapers'
At 'Ignatius Sancho: a Celebration, organised by The Equiano Society,
Greenwich (March)
- 'To Boldly Write: Literature and the Exploration of Space from Ovid to
Star Trek'
At the KUSEDS Seminar (Kingston University Society for the Exploration and
Development of Space), Kingston University (February)
2001:
- 'Inventing a poetics of antislavery: Thomas Day and John Bicknell's "The
Dying Negro"'
At Discourses of Slavery and Abolition, Institute of English Studies,
University of London (April)
2000:
- '"A shriek unusually loud": sentiment, the sublime, and the rhetoric of
abolition in the late eighteenth century'
At the Eighteenth-Century Seminar, Birkbeck College, University of London
(December)
- 'William Wilberforce's Sentimental Rhetoric: Reporting the
Anti-Slavery Debate in Late-Eighteenth Century England'
At the Eighteenth-Century Seminar, City University of New York,
USA (May)
- '"The Extraordinary Negro": Johnsonian Biography, Slave Narrative
and Joseph Jekyll's "Life of Ignatius Sancho" (1782)'
At the University of Sussex Life Writing Seminar (February)
1999:
- 'The Jekyllian Fallacy: Disentangling Sancho's Life and Jekyll's
"Life"'
At Ignatius Sancho: Sensibility and Abolition, Queen Mary, University
of London (March)
- 'William Wilberforce, the House of Commons, and the case of the
slave captains'
At the Queen Mary staff and postgraduate research seminar
(September)
1998:
- '"Read this and blush ye Creoles": Sentiment, rhetoric, and
slavery in the late eighteenth century'
At the Queen Mary staff and postgraduate research seminar
(April)
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