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 | current employment | previous employment | publications | media | awards, etc | conferences organised | papers given
Education
- 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]
- 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.
- 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.
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Current Employment:
- From October 2006:
Reader in English Literature, School of Humanities, Kingston University, Surrey, United Kingdom.
"Reader" is a British academic grade approximately equivalent to the international grade "Associate Professor".
- 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'. 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'.
- Postgraduate Teaching: I have contributed to Kingston's MA in Nineteenth-Century Literature and the MA in Popular Literature, in particular on the module 'Gender and Sexuality' for the former and the 'British Science Fiction' module for the latter. I currently teach the module 'Imagining Empire' on Kingston's MA in English. I have supervised to completion two MA by Research students, and I currently supervise one PhD student whose thesis examines representations of London in recent literature. As Postgraduate Research Student Co-ordinator for English Literature and Creative Writing, I currently run the postgraduate research skills seminars. I am also currently leading a Research Informed Teaching project to produce a large body of on-line research skills training materials for English and Creative Writing.
- Management: I am currently the Postgraduate Research Student Co-ordinator for English Literature and Creative Writing. Previously, I was the Admissions Tutor for English Literature and Languages. I am also, or have been, involved with the English Curriculum Review Committee, the English Research Strategy Committee, the Faculty Equipment Review Board, the English Module Guide Review Committee, and the Faculty E-learning Committee, as well as taking on many other ad hoc management roles from time to time. My most recent major task has been to lead the team validating Kingston's new MA in English.
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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
Book:
Edited Books and Journals:
- 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:
- ‘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:
- '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]
Other Academic Publications, Including Journalism, Popular History, and Websites:
- 'The Depiction of the Slave Trade in Children's Books' in Books For Keeps, 166 (September 2007), 3-5.
- '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 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:
- '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]
- 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: Interdiscipliniary 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]
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
Forthcoming (Contracted) Publications:
- Book Chapter: 'Slavery, Empire, Race’, in Teaching Romanticism, ed. David Higgins and Sharon Ruston (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2009)
- Book Chapter: ‘Inventing a Culture of Antislavery: Pennsylvania Quakers and the Germantown Protest of 1688’ in Imagining Transatlantic Slavery and Abolition ed. Cora Kaplan and John Oldfield (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2008)
- Book Chapter: '"Turn, my muse, from this sad scene": Classical Influences on Eighteenth-Century Abolitionist Poetry' in Ancient Slavery and Abolition: From Hobbes to Hollywood (Classical Presences Series), ed Richard Alston, Edith Hall, and Justine McConnell (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2010).
- Book Chapter: 'Slavery and Abolition', in Samuel Johnson in Context, ed. Jack Lynch (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2010)
- Edited Special Journal Issue: I am editing a special issue of the journal 1650-1850 on Olaudah Equiano. This will include an article by myself on 'Olaudah Equiano and the Identity Debate'.
- Journal Article: 'Guernsey and the Slave Trade: A Reassessment' in Transactions of La Société Guernesiaise, 2008.
- Entry in Reference Work: 'Olaudah Equiano'. Entry in the forthcoming African American National Biography, eds. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. et al (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
In Preparation:
- Book: Quaker Rhetoric and Transatlantic Antislavery, 1660-1808. A monograph in which I examine the development of antislavery thought and rhetoric in American Quaker writing, and chart its dessemination throughout the Atlantic world of the eighteenth century.
- Journal Article: ‘"The grief of divers Friends": Pennsylvania Quakers and the Problem of Slavery, 1710-1719'
- Book Chapter: 'To Force a Tear: Antislavery on the Eighteenth-Century London Stage'
- Book Chapter: '"The worse than Negro barbarity of the populace": Ignatius Sancho witnesses the Gordon Riots'
- Book: on imaginary interplanetary voyages in the early modern period.
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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:
- 2007: British Academy 'Overseas Conference Grant'. A cash award 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'. A cash award 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'. A cash award 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 Executive Member: British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. My current role is Academic Organiser of the Society's annual conference. [BSECS Home Page]
- 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]
Peer Review:
- I have reviewed manuscript articles for the following journals: 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.
- I have reviewed book manuscripts and/or proposals for the following publishers: Broadview Press; Oxford University Press.
Consultancy:
- External Advisor for the MA in London Studies at the University of Westminster
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Conferences Organised
- Quakers and Slavery: An International Interdisciplinary Conference
I am I am one of the two principal organisers of this conference, to be co-hosted by the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, Swarthmore College, and Haverford College in November 2010
- British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
I am currently the academic organiser of the annual meeting of the society. I organised the 2007 conference, and am currently working on the 2008 and 2009 conferences. The BSECS conference is a major event, attracting 400-500 scholars from around the world. It is hosted by St Hugh's College, Oxford.
- Literary London: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Representation of London
I am one of the co-ordinating team for this annual conference for scholars and students engaged in the study of London and literature.
I have been involved with the conference for several years, including being on the co-ordinating team for:
- 2008: the 7th Annual Literary London conference, hosted by Brunel University
- 2007: the 6th Annual Literary London conference, hosted by the University of Westminster
- 2006: the 5th Annual Literary London conference, hosted by the University of Greenwich
- 2005: the 4th Annual Literary London conference, hosted by the Department of English and the Centre for Suburban Studies at Kingston University, London
- 2004: the 3rd Annual Literary London conference, hosted by Institute of English Studies, University of London
- 2003: the 2nd Annual Literary London conference, hosted by the Department of English, Goldsmiths' College, University of London
- 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. [Read more]
- 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.[Read more]
- 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 community groups, since I see both as being equally important.
2010:
- '"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)
2009:
- '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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* This CV last updated on 22 May 2009 *
