Thomas Duggett

I'm a Reader in English Literature in the Department of Literary and Translation Studies, working principally on British cultural politics 1790-1850, and specializing in Romantic poetry and prose. I am Honorary Fellow in the Department of English, University of Liverpool, and in 2023/24 held visiting positions as Senior Fellow in the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, and Fleeman Fellow in the School of English, University of St Andrews. My service to the profession includes an Associate Editorship on the Edinburgh University Press journal Romanticism (2016-present); Life Membership of the Wordsworth Conference Foundation (elected 2018); Fellowship of the Royal Historical Society (elected 2022); Trusteeship and Committee Membership of the Friends of Coleridge (elected 2023); and Fellowship of the English Association (elected 2024). My current projects include an edition of Ann Radcliffe's The Romance of the Forest (1791) for the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ann Radcliffe, a major AHRC-funded research project; and special issues on historicism for the leading journals Romanticism and Essays in Romanticism. See below for full details of my activities and publications.

Romanticism

Gothic literature

Literature and Historiography

Associate Head, Department of Literary and Translation Studies, 2023-

Chair, XJTLU Teaching Centre Committee, 2019-2022

Deputy Head, Department of English, 2018-2020

Examinations Officer, Department of English, 2017-2019

Programme Director, BA English and Communication Studies, 2012-2015

PhD Supervision (degree awarded): 

2023. Irving, Roslyn, 'Frightened into Method: A Study of Literary Historiography in Radcliffe’s The Romance of the Forest (1791)'

Module Leader:

LIT301 Final Year Project: Literature

LIT304 The Gothic

LIT310 Literature of Modernity (1900-1940)

Previous teaching includes: LIT303 Romanticism; LIT207 Literature of the Enlightenment; ENG106 Literature in Context; ENG105 Close Reading; ENG214 Jane Austen; FOM001 Imagining the City; ENG004 Thinking Shakespeare

Research Excellence Award, School of Humanities and Social Sciences at XJTLU, 2022/23

Senior Fellow, Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2023-

Fleeman Research Fellow, University of St Andrews, School of English (2023-2024)

Elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (May 2022)

Honorary Fellow in the School of English, University of Liverpool, 2013-

Modern Language Association of America (MLA) Prize for Independent Scholars 2010/11, for Gothic Romanticism: Architecture, Politics, and Literary Form (Palgrave 2010)

Dissertation Prize in the School of English at the University of St Andrews: the Catherine Wyatt Fenty Memorial Prize 2002 (published as ’In Solitude, for Company: The City in W. H. Auden’s Horae Canonicae’, English, Vol. 54, No. 210 (Winter 2005), 195-208)

Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, University of London, School of Advanced Study (January 2016 – June 2016)

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, The Huntington (2015/16)