Southampton Centre for Nineteenth-Century Research

Our people

Learn about our team and their expertise.

External members

In addition to the University of Southampton academics listed on this page, our membership includes:

Dr Pauline Hortolland 
MCF en littérature anglophone / Lecturer in English Literature (British Romanticism)
Université Marie et Louis PASTEUR, Besançon (FRANCE)
Laboratoire CRIT
 

Professor Aaron Ridley

Professor in Philosophy

Research interests

  • Aesthetics
  • Philosophy of Music
  • Nietzsche

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Aude Campmas

Lecturer in French Studies

Research interests

  • Representations of childfree women
  • Trauma and discrimination
  • Trauma and memory

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Christer Petley

Professor of Atlantic History

Research interests

  • Atlantic History
  • Caribbean History
  • Slavery and Abolition

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Professor Christopher Janaway

Professor in Philosophy

Research interests

  • Schopenhauer
  • Nietzsche
  • Classical Indian Philosophy

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Dr Christopher Prior

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Imperial history and the legacies of empire
  • The history of modern sub-Saharan Africa
  • Socio-political and intellectual networks in foreign policy

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Emeritus Professor Christopher Woolgar FBA

Research interests

  • Daily life in the later middle ages
  • Material culture
  • Testamentary records in the later middle ages
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Professor David Brown

Professor of Modern History

Research interests

  • The history of social reform and philanthropy
  • Victorian liberalism
  • British political history 
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Dr David Cox

Lecturer B

Research interests

  • Race
  • Folklore
  • Magic
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Professor David Owen Norris MA (Oxon.) FSA FRAM FRCO FRNCM

Professor of Musical Performance

Research interests

  • Nineteenth-century pianofortes
  • The interpretation of Marks of Expression
  • Mendelssohn, Parry, Elgar, Walton & Lambert
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