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Professor Stephen Bygrave BA, PhD

Professor of English; joint Director of Programmes

Professor Stephen Bygrave is a Professor of English at the University of Southampton.

I did a BA in English at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and a PhD at St John's College, Cambridge. I have taught at Cambridge, Leeds, UEA, King's College London, Dundee, and for the Open University, and for shorter periods at the Universities of Barcelona and Frankfurt. I have held fellowships at The Huntington Library (San Marino, California), the Clark Library (UCLA), from the AHRC and the Leverhulme Trust. In 2019 I was the Joseph Peter Spang III Fellow at the Lewis Walpole Library, Farmington, Connecticut and a Visiting Fellow in the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra. In 2021 I take up a Fellowship at the International Center for Jefferson Studies in Monticello, Virginia. I am a recovering marathon runner and a Chelsea fan.

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Research interests

I have published widely on Romantic poetry; the enlightenment; rhetoric; and the history of education. At the moment, I am working on the rhetoric of dissenting writers of the 1790s (notably Joseph Priestley and Anna Barbauld).

Research projects

I am Series Editor (with Stephen Bending) for the Pickering and Chatto Chawton House Library series, a multi-volume series of reprints and reset editions of rare texts from the Library’s collections.

Gillian Dow and I organised a very successful British Association for Romantic Studies conference in Summer 2013. We received many nice comments including "Many thanks for your mighty labours for the BARS conference. The panel on theatre that I chaired was very lively, and everyone seemed gratified. And the session where I presented my own paper was very productive." and "The BARS conference was superb, you were always on the spot to help everybody. Someone who had attended the BARS conference many times said that it was the best of all the BARS conferences she had attended, and I am sure that is due to you and your colleagues who prepared, organized, and supported all."

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Bending, S., & Bygrave, S. (Eds.) (2009). The history of Sandford and Merton, by Thomas Day. (Broadview Editions). Broadview Press.
Bygrave, S. (2009). Uses of education: readings in enlightenment in England. (Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture). Bucknell University Press.
Morton, S., & Bygrave, S. (Eds.) (2008). Foucault in an age of terror: essays on biopolitics and the defence of society. Palgrave Macmillan.
Bending, S., & Bygrave, S. (Eds.) (2008). Women's travel writings in revolutionary France. Part II: 4 volume set. (Chawton House Library Series: Women’s Travel Writings). Pickering and Chatto.
Bending, S., & Bygrave, S. (Eds.) (2007). Women's travel writings in revolutionary France. Part I: 3 volume set. (Chawton House Library Series: Women’s Travel Writings). Pickering & Chatto.
Vickers, B., Bending, S., & Bygrave, S. (Eds.) (2001). Henry Mackenzie: The Man of Feeling. (Oxford World's Classics). Oxford University Press.

Book Chapters

Bygrave, S. (2015). L'Exception Anglaise: Joseph Priestley abroad and Romantic poetics. In S. Clark, & T. Connolly (Eds.), Early British Romanticism in a Continental Perspective: Into the Eurozone (pp. 113-132). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137461964
Bygrave, S. (2014). ”Hallowed by the occasion of the meeting”: Priestley, Meetings, Utility and Address in Barbauld’s Poetry in the 1790s. In W. McCarthy, & O. Murphy (Eds.), Anna Letitia Barbauld: New Perspectives (pp. 127-149). (Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850). Bucknell University Press.
Bygrave, S. (2008). Foucault, Auden and two New York Septembers. In S. Morton, & S. Bygrave (Eds.), Foucault in an Age of Terror: Essays on Biopolitics and the Defence of Society (pp. 215-229). Palgrave Macmillan.

I co-teach the undergraduate modules Rakes to Romantics, Revolution and Romanticism: Literature of the 1790s and Inventing America. I have taught MA modules on Romanticism, on culture and the modern city, modernity and post-modernity, and Enlightenment art and science.

I have supervised or co-supervised PhDs on the Poets Laureate of the Long Eighteenth Century; the Letters and Tractarian Fiction of Two Hampshire Women, 1827-1839; Physical Geography in the fiction of Tim Winton and Cormac McCarthy; on musical accomplishment in fiction by Jane Austen; on the representation of speech in the novels of Frances Burney; for a student in Music whose project is entitled ‘Songwriting as a Socially Symbolic Act: Class, Celebrity, Protest and Historicism in Bob Dylan and John Lennon 1962-1975', and others on Disraeli, Blake, fiction by women in the 1790s, and Victorian periodical poetry.

Professor Stephen Bygrave
Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Southampton, Avenue Campus, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BF, United Kingdom

Room Number : 65/2029

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