Join us! Workshop Performance: The Revival of Huntly Carter. Collaboration between Prof Rebecca Beasley ( Faculty of English Uni of Oxford) and Patrick Morris (Director and Writer, #menagerietheatrecompany ) tinyurl.com/2e59uj8f Oxford Students University of Oxford Humanities Division María del Pilar Blanco

One-year Lecturer in Romanticism post at Queen Mary University of London. Come and join us! More info here: qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies… . Applications close 11 June.

QMCECS Seminar: Wednesday 29 March: James Steintrager (UC Irvine) on Libertine Networks of 18th Century Europe. 5-7pm. In-person at Mile End (FB 1.02.6). Online sign-up: qmul.ac.uk/sed/english/re…. All welcome.

QMCECS Seminar 8 March: Ian Newman on 'The Flash Manner of Singing'. Online or in-person at Mile End (Bancroft 1.02.06). 5.15-7.00pm. More info and online sign-up: qmul.ac.uk/sed/english/re…

QMCECS and BSECS Early Career Visiting Fellowship: applications accepted to support a week's research on eighteenth-century studies in libraries and archives in London. Deadline 8 March.
More info and application form: tinyurl.com/mr3trbjf

QMCECS Seminar tonight: Mathelinda Nabugodi (Cambridge) on Shelley and the discourses of slavery. In-person at Mile End, or online, 5.15-7pm. More info and sign-up here: qmul.ac.uk/sed/english/re…

New book: Science and Reading in the Eighteenth Century: The Hardwicke Circle and the Royal Society, 1740–1766.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 February 2023
Free to download for the until Feb 16!
DOI: doi.org/10.1017/978100…

QMCECS Seminar [hybrid] 25 January 2023 (5-7pm): Philippa Hellawell (The National Archives) ‘African Knowledge and Skill in the Royal African Company Archive’. More info and sign-up: qmul.ac.uk/sed/english/re…

QMCECS seminar tonight: Joseph Cozens from UCL on Smuggling Gangs and the British State. In person and online. All welcome!

Seminar tonight: Thomas Laqueur (UC Berkeley) 'Revisiting Solitary Sex', 5-7pm. Details here: qmul.ac.uk/sed/english/re…

Congratulations to Prof Rebecca Beasley who was awarded the Women’s Forum Book Prize by BASEES for 'Russomania: Russian Culture and the Creation of British Modernism, 1881–1922'. Judges described the book as 'deftly written' & 'magisterially informed' english.web.ox.ac.uk/article/profes…

My Eighteenth-Century Fiction (ECF) article, ‘Little Puggies: Consuming Cuteness and Deforming Motherhood in Susan Ferrier’s Marriage’, is now accessible online!

What does a scene involving a pair of porcelain pugs tell us about cuteness and the morality of dog ownership?

muse.jhu.edu/article/852620

Congratulations to Rebecca Beasley winner of BASEES Women’s Forum Prize 2022 for her 'richly detailed [and] remarkably entertaining' 'Russomania: Russian culture & the creation of British #modernism 1881-1922' The Queen's College

Read the Introduction, here bit.ly/374wSV4

QMCECS Seminar: 5 April. Stella Tillyard, 'The Red Line and the Blue Sea: Five Lives in Revolutionary Times'. Room opens 17.00, seminar starts 17.15. Online and in person. Register here:
qmul-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Seminar tonight QMCECS 30 November. 17:15 (UK Time). David O'Shaughnessy (Galway NUI). ‘Accounting for taste: the business of Georgian theatre’. More: bit.ly/39turJj

QMCECS Seminar tonight: 19 October. Nicole Aljoe (Northeastern University, Boston), ‘Racing the Rise of the Novel: Black Lives and the Development of the English Novel from 1688-1832’. 17:15 UK Time.

*TOMORROW* We have Elin Jones (Exeter) talking about 'The Mechanical Warship: Naval Seamanship and Useful Knowledge in the Eighteenth Century', 17:15 UK time.

Sign up here and abstract here:

qmul-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

We are pleased to announce that you can now sign up for Michael J. Griffin’s 6 April seminar, “London Irish: Goldsmith’s 'Retaliation' Revisited' here:

qmul-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

and here’s the abstract:

Our next seminar is scheduled for April 6, when Michael J. Griffin (Limerick) is presenting on ‘London Irish: Goldsmith’s Retaliation Revisited’.

QMCECS Seminar Cancelled (23 March 2021)

With regret, we have to announce that that the seminar by Prof Nicole Aljoe scheduled for Tuesday 23 March 2021 has had to be cancelled. We hope to reorganize the seminar in the next academic year. Apologies for the inconvenience.