Research group

Southampton Centre for Nineteenth-Century Research

A nineteenth century image of the High Street leading to the Bargate in Southampton

We highlight research on the ‘long 19th century’ (1789-1917) carried out by our members across several faculties and a wide range of disciplines.

About

We launched our research centre in the summer of 2012 after two years as a successful reading group. Our membership of over 70 researchers includes staff, students, and external friends. We work across several faculties in the University and beyond.

We meet up to three times a term to present and discuss our work. We also debate issues of central importance to interdisciplinary 19th century studies.

We invite guests to speak at our external events. These include seminars, and conferences.

Our centre aims are to publicise the work done by our members. We forge and extend links with 19th century researchers in other institutions globally too.

 

Research themes

Research themes include:

  • British debate over slavery
  • diaries of the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
  • fluid geographies and global mobilities: recovering Southampton’s translocal book trade networks 1840 -1914
  • local population studies society parish register project
  • monstrous flowers: literature women and botany
  • the most typical Victorian of them all?
  • two shipwrecks in Alum Bay

 

Journals

Romance, Revolution and Reform is a PGR-led journal based at the University of Southampton. It has an open access policy, supporting post-graduates. It includes papers by established academics too.

The editorial team publishes stimulating new research on the long 19th century (1789-1914). This can be from the perspective of any humanities or social sciences discipline.

The Journal aims to help new researchers and early career academics publish their latest findings.

Read our latest issue, and find out more about RRR's policies and how to publish with us

Email us at [email protected]

 

News and events

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Image credit - Southampton City Council/ SeaCity Museum

People, projects, publications and PhDs

People

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
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Professor Francesco Izzo

Professor of Music

Research interests

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

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Genia Schönbaumsfeld

Professor of Philosophy

Research interests

  • Wittgenstein
  • Epistemology
  • Kierkegaard
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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. 
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Professor Jeanice Brooks

Professor of Music

Research interests

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

Accepting applications from PhD students

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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)
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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

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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
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Professor Jonathan Conlin

Professor of Modern History

Research interests

  • British Cultural History
  • Gladstone and Victorian Intellectual History
  • History of Museums

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Justine Pizzo

Lecturer

Research interests

  • Victorian Literature and Culture
  • Victorian Ecology
  • Climate in Literature

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Related research institutes, centres and groups

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Enquiries

For more information, please contact Dr Aude Campmas

School of Humanities,
Faculty of Arts & Humanities,
Avenue Campus,
University of Southampton,
Southampton
SO17 1BF