Southampton Centre for Nineteenth-Century Research
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
 

Dr Eve Colpus BA, MSt, DPhil

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Histories of childhood and youth in late-twentieth century Britain
  • Histories of technology use
  • Gender history
Connect with Eve

Email: E.C.Colpus@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 7138

Professor Francesco Izzo

Professor of Music

Research interests

  • Nineteenth-century Italian opera
  • Giuseppe Verdi
  • Opera buffa

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Francesco

Email: F.Izzo@soton.ac.uk

Mr Frederick Hyde

Connect with Frederick

Email: F.W.Hyde@soton.ac.uk

Professor Genia Schönbaumsfeld

Professor of Philosophy

Research interests

  • Wittgenstein
  • Epistemology
  • Kierkegaard
Connect with Genia

Email: G.M.E.Schoenbaumsfeld@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 3552

Dr Gillian Dow

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Research interests Eighteenth-century literature and culture
  • Translation and reception history
  • The cross-channel migration of ideas in the period 1780-1830. 
Connect with Gillian

Email: G.Dow@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 8386

Professor Jeanice Brooks

Professor of Music

Research interests

  • Renaissance music
  • Music in interwar France
  • Music and gender

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Jeanice

Email: L.J.Brooks@soton.ac.uk

Emeritus Professor Joachim Schloer

Research interests

  • German-Jewish history in modern times
  • German-Jewish emigration after 1933 as a transnational phenomenon
  • Urban history (Berlin, Tel Aviv, Odessa)
Connect with Joachim

Email: J.Schloer@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 2232

Dr John Mcaleer

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • The British Empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
  • The East India Company and its worlds.
  • Islands and empires.

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with John

Email: J.Mcaleer@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 2239

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Emeritus Professor John McGavin

Research interests

  • Records of Early Drama, Ceremonial, and Secular Music
  • Scottish Literature, History, and Culture pre-1645
Connect with John

Email: J.J.Mcgavin@soton.ac.uk

Professor Jonathan Conlin

Professor of Modern History

Research interests

  • The Chevalière Deon and her place in trans history
  • History of Museums and Arts Television
  • Late Ottoman Empire/Middle East and 1923 Lausanne Treaty

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Jonathan

Email: J.Conlin@soton.ac.uk

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