Dr MICHAEL BROWN
Lecturer in Irish and Scottish History
Personal Details
| Telephone: | +44 (0)1224 273685/2472 |
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| E-mail: | m.brown@abdn.ac.uk |
| Address: | School of Divinity, History and Philosophy, Room: 110 (History) or HMA4 (Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies) Meston Walk, King's College, University of Aberdeen, Old Aberdeen, AB24 3FX. Tel: +44 (0) 1224-272472 (History) or + 44 (0) 1224-273685 (RIISS) |
Biography
The acting Director of the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies, Dr Brown was appointed to a lectureship in Irish and Scottish History at Aberdeen in 2006. Promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2011, he is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, where he studied history for his BA (Mod) and PhD. Having spent time as a graduate student on an Irish-Scottish Academic Initative Exchange at the University of Strathclyde, he subsequently worked at the Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies and the Department of Modern History at Trinity and in the Combined Departments of History at University College Dublin. He lectures regularly in Ireland, England and North America.
Research Interests
Dr Brown's work concerns political and moral discourse in eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland. He is interested in how the Enlightenment intersected with religious and political identities. His approach is often comparative and interdisciplinary, with a focus on literary and philosophical writings.
Current Research
Dr Brown is finalising a 300,000 word study, The Irish Enlightenment, 1688-1798 which is to be published by Harvard University Press in Autumn 2013.
He is also writing a textbook entitled The Birth of Modernity: A Cultural History of Europe, 1700-1900 for Pearson. Further research concerns the impact of the French Revolution on the Scottish Enlightenment.
Dr Brown's most recent monograph is A Political Biography of John Toland (London; Pickering & Chatto, 2012). He has a long track record in collaborative work, which includes The Law and Other Legalities of Ireland, 1689-1850 (Farnham; Ashgate Press, 2011), edited with Seán Patrick Donlan, and United Islands? The Languages of Resistance (London; Pickering & Chatto, 2012), which is edited with John Kirk and Andrew Noble as part of the book series 'Poetry and Song in the Age of Revolution'.
He also has experience in editing scholarly journals. He spent five years as the general editor of the interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal, Eighteenth-Century Ireland (2001-2005) and is currently an editor of the biannual interdisciplinary peer-reviewed Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies (2006 to the present).
Collaborations
Alongside Dr John Kirk and Dr Andrew Noble (both of Queen's University Belfast) Dr Brown is a commissioning editor of the book series Poetry and Song in the Age of Revolution with Pickering & Chatto Press (2011 ongoing).
Research Grants
Dr Brown was the principal investigator in the AHRC sponsored project 'Irish and Scottish Diasporas since 1600' from 2006 to 2010. This resulted in the publication of four collections of essays, which he edited:
- as sole editor, Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies, 5.2 (2012), special issue: After the Homecoming (proof stage).
- (with Paul Shanks), Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies, 5.1 (2011), special issue: Migrating Minds, (proof stage)
- (with Rosalyn Trigger), Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies, 2.2 (2009), special issue: Frontiers of the Irish and Scottish Diasporas, 241pp;
- (with Rosalyn Trigger), Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies, 2.1 (2008), special issue: Gallic Connections: Irish and Scottish Encounters with France, 192pp
In 2008 he was a successful co-applicant to the AHRC for a Network Grant entitled 'United Islands? Multi-Lingual Radical Poetry and Folksong in Britain and Ireland, 1770-1820'.
He is a founding Director of the Aberdeen Humanities Fund, created in 2012.
Teaching Responsibilities
HI 2013: The Birth of Modernity: Politics, Culture and Science in Europe, 1700-1870
HI 3593: The Making of Modern Ireland, 1800-2000
HI4015: Between the Unions: Political Culture in Ireland and Scotland, 1707-1800
HI5558: Enlightenment in Comparison
HI5565: The Invention of Irish Nationalism
EL5031: Reading History's Past
External Responsibilities
Serving on the committee of the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society, Dr Brown is also a member of the Advisory Committee of Studies in Burke and his Time and the International Review of Scottish Studies.
Publications
- Kirk, J., Brown, MP. & Noble, A. Cultures of Radicalism in Britain and Ireland, Book, 2013
- Brown, MP. Enlightenment and Revolution: A British Problematic, Chapter, 2013, Cultures of Radicalism in Britain and Ireland, pp1 - 24
- Brown, MP. The Irish Enlightenment, Book, 2013
- Brown, MP. A Meal at Saracens Head: Edmund Burke and the Scottish Literati, Article, 2012, Studies in Burke and his Time, 22, ISSN/ISBN: 0039-3584
- Brown, MP. A Political Biography of John Toland, Book, 2012
- Brown, MP. The Biter Bitten, Article, 2012, Eighteenth-Century Studies, 45, 3, pp393 - 407, ISSN/ISBN: 0013-2586
- Brown, MP., Kirk, J. & Noble, A. United Islands?, Book, 2012
- Brown, MP. Farmer and Fool, Chapter, 2011, The Law and Other Legalities of Ireland, 1689-1850, pp301 - 325
- Brown, MP. Outwith the Pale, Chapter, 2011, Modern Irish and Scottish Poetry, pp313 - 327
- Brown, MP. & Donlan, SP. The Law and Other Legalities of Ireland, 1689-1850, Book, 2011
- Brown, MP. Configuring the Irish Enlightenment , Chapter, 2010, Clubs and Societies in Eighteenth-Century Ireland
- Brown, MP. Creating Conspiracies, Article, 2010, Eighteenth Century Ireland Iris an da Chultur, 25, pp48 - 61, ISSN/ISBN: 0790-7915
- Brown, MP. The Place of Learning in Eighteenth-Century Dublin, Chapter, 2009, Marsh Library's: A Mirror on the World, pp104 - 126
- Brown, MP. A Scottish Literati in France, Article, 2008, Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies, 2, 1, pp73 - 100, ISSN/ISBN: 1753-2396
- Brown, MP. Was there an Irish Enlightenment?, Article, 2008, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, pp49 - 64, ISSN/ISBN: 0435-2866
- Brown, MP. Teaching Irish Studies In Ireland: After the End, Chapter, 2006, Ireland Beyond Boundaries, Pluto Press, London, pp58 - 67
- Brown, MP. The National Identity of Edmund Burke, Chapter, 2006, Edmund Burke's Irish Identities, pp201 - 225
- Brown, MP., McGrath, CI. & Power, TP. Converts and Conversion in Ireland, 1650-1850, Book, 2005
- Brown, MP. The Injured lady and Her British Problem: The Union in Political Thought, Chapter, 2003, The Irish Act of Union, 1800, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, eds M Brown, PM Geoghegan, J Kelly, pp37 - 49
- Brown, MP., Geoghegan, PM. & Kelly, J. The Irish Act of Union, 1800, Book, 2003
- Brown, MP. Francis Hutcheson in Dublin, 1719-1730, Book, 2002
- Brown, MP. & Harrison, SH. The Medieval World and the Modern Mind, Book, 2000