People

Key Areas of Interest: 19th Century Mexican Political History; Pronunciamientos; Insurrectionary Political Culture and Civil War; Biographical Research

Areas of Postgraduate Research Supervision: 19th Century Latin American Politics; Europe and the Americas in the 1860s; Mexican Biographies

Current Postgraduate Research Students working on the long nineteenth century:
– Julia Hieske, ‘Shaping the U.S. American Gaze on Mexico: An Analysis of T. Phillip Terry’s Guidebook to Mexico and its Sociocultural Implications Within the Wider Discourse of U.S. Tourism to Porfirian Mexico’
– Alejandro Adame Basilio, ‘Joel Poinsett in Mexico, 1825-1829: A study in the overlap between diplomacy and partisan politics during the administration of President Guadalupe Victoria.’

Professor Mary Orr
Co-Director & Founder
School of Modern Languages (French)

Key Areas of Interest: 19th Century French Literature; Histories and Cultures of 19th Century Science; French Women’s Writing (19th-21st Century)

Areas of Postgraduate Research Supervision: 19th Century French/Francophone Literary-Cultural Studies; French and Comparative Histories of Natural Science; French Women’s Writing; Hybrid and Intermedial Literary/Literary-Scientific Genres

Current Postgraduate Research Students:
– Tomas Vancisim, ‘Visualising the University of St Andrews Biographical Registrar’ (co-supervised with Computer Science)
– Amy McTurk, ‘Multimedial Portraits of Artist as Woman: A Case Study of Female Creativity and Subjectivity in the work of George Sand (1804-1876) and Marguerite Duras (1914-1996)’
– Dr Sarah Arens (BA postdoc), ‘Constructing a Geopolitics of Nationhood: Belgium’s Scientific and Cultural Colonial Project (1830-1958)’

Key Areas of Interest: Global history; history of science; consumption; collecting, and gender in the long eighteenth century

Key Areas of Interest: Autobiography; Memory; Materialism; Photography; Journalism

Areas of Postgraduate Research Supervision: Spanish Realist and Naturalist Prose Writing; Spanish Journalism; Spanish Autobiography in the 19th Century

Key Areas of Interest: King Arthur in the 19th Century; Women’s Writing; Antiquarianism and Folklore; Mermaids

Areas of Postgraduate Research Supervision: Romantic and Victorian Women’s Writing; 19th Century Medievalism; Gothic Literature; Book History and Reading Practices; Feminist Theory

Current Postgraduate Research Students:
– James Erickson, ‘Let the King Reign: Tennysonian Aurthuriana and Victorian Platonism’

Key Areas of Interest: Histories and Theories of Photography; Transnational Visual Cultures; Japanese Modern Art; Orientalism and Japonisme; Asia-Pacific Visual Exchanges

Areas of Postgraduate Research Supervision: Histories of Photography; Cross-Cultural Visual History; Japanese Visual Culture; Colonial Representation

Current and Recent Postgraduate Research Students:
-Carrine Chelhot Lemyre, ‘The Maison Bonfils in the Middle East’
-Édouard de Saint-Ours, ‘Photographing Indio-China: State Archives and French Colonialism’ (Cotutelle with Université de Havare)
-Nora Labo, ‘Competing Construction of Nature in Early Photographs of Vegetation’
-Alexandre Supartono, ‘Re-Imag(in)ing History: Photography and the  Sugar Industry of Colonial Java’

Key Areas of Interest: 19th and early 20th Century French Art and Literature; Artists’ Writings; Word and Image Studies

Areas of Postgraduate Research Supervision: 19th and early 20th Century French art; Relations Between Art and Literature in the 19th Century; Artist’s Writings; Visual and Literary Cultures of Travel and Encounters in the Colonial Context

Recent Postgraduate Research Students:
-Maria Golovteeva, ‘Fernand Khnopff Art and Photography in the 19th Century (1858-1921)’
-Eunjee Lee, ‘The Selling of the ‘Exotic’ Far East: Western Printmakers in East Asia (1899-1960)’ co-supervised by Jeremy Howard and Michelle Huang

For more information, please visit Prof. Harris’ departmental website.

Key Areas of Interest: 19th Century French Literature; French Women’s Writing; Intertextuality and Intermediality; Representations of Women Artists

Dr Bernhard Struck
School of History

Key Areas of Interest: Continental European History; Transnational and Comparative History; Enlightenment; History of Science; Cartography; Spatial History; Esperanto Movement

Recent Postgraduate Research Students:
– Matt Ylitalo, ‘Dundee Whaling in Global Transmaritime Perspectives’
– Marcel Koschek, ‘Polish Esperanto Movement in Translocal and Transnational Perspectives’
– Pilar da Lamo, ‘Catalan Esperanto Movement between Region, State, and Internationalism’
– Adam Dunn, ‘Circulation and Ideas of Statistic in Europe Around 1800’
– Sophie Dunn, ‘Family Travels in post-Napoleonic Europe’
– Tom Cunningham (postdoc), ‘Empire and Scottish Mission to Kenya’

Professor Emma Sutton
School of English

Areas of Postgraduate Research Supervision: 19th Century Musical-Literary Relations; Decadence and Aestheticism; The work and reception of Richard Wagner; Aubrey Beardsley

Former Postgraduate Research Students:
– Anna Watson, ‘Music Lessons and the Construction of Womanhood in English Fiction (1870-1914)’
– Jeremiah Mercurio, ‘Fantasy as a Mode of British and Irish Literary Decadence (1885-1925)’
– Margaux Pouymirou, ‘The Sixth Sense: Synaesthesia and British Aestheticism (1860-1900)’

Dr Gregory Tate
School of English

Key Areas of Interest: 19th Century; Poetry; Literature and Science; Literature and Philosophy; Literature and Psychology; History of Education, specifically of language learning

Recent Postgraduate Research Students:
– Dr Suz Garrard, ‘Manufacturing Selves: The Poetics of Self-Representation and Identity in the Poetry of Three “Factory Girls” (1840-1882)’

Key Areas of Interest: Gender; Co-authorism; Realism; Metafiction; Novel

Areas of Postgraduate Research Supervision: History of the Novel; History of Ideas; Narrative Studies; Gender and Queer History and Theory; 19th Century Russian Literature; Narrative Transvestism and Literary Cross-dressing

Key Areas of Interest: Political Thought; Intellectual History; Liberalism; Political Economy

Areas of Postgraduate Research Supervision: After the Enlightenment (Leverhulme Funded Research Project)

Current Postgraduate Research Students:
– Lasse Anderson, ‘Land Ownership and Political Thought in 19th Century European Thought’