RESEARCH STAFF

LITERATURE

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Sören HAMMERSCHMIDT

 

PhD in English, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2009 ; MSc by Research in English Literature, University of Edinburgh, 2002 ;
MA (Hons) in English Literature, University of Edinburgh, 2001

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Research on Authorship as Performance


 

Research interests

  • Eighteenth-century and Romantic British literature
  • History of reading
  • History of the book
  • Scottish literature
Research projects
  • The Social Lives of Letters: Correspondence, Character, and Mediation, 1726-1835 (book project, in progress)
Recent publications
  • "Character, Cultural Agency, and Abolition: Ignatius Sancho's Published Letters." Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 31.2 (June 2008): 259-73.
  • "Ramsay, Fergusson, Thomson, Davidson, and Urban Poetry." The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature, Vol. Two: Enlightenment, Britain and Empire (1707-1918). Period ed. Susan Manning. Gen. ed. Ian Brown. Co-ed. Thomas Owen Clancy and Murray Pittock. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2006. 80-89.