Posted on 1 September, 2004
Staff changes - September 2004-September 2005
Welcome to Derek Hughes, Sixth Century Professor, who joined us from the University of Warwick last August. His areas of research include classical literature, seventeenth century British theatre and women’s writing, and opera. His books include English Drama, 1660-1700 (1996) and The Theatre of Aphra Behn (2001). He is currently completing a book on the representation of human sacrifice in literature and opera.
Welcome to Professor Janet Todd, who has been a major critic of early women writers. She has edited individual works of Charlotte Smith, Eliza Fenwick and Helen Maria Williams, and coedited the complete works of Mary Wollstonecraft with Marilyn Butler. She has also edited the complete works of Aphra Behn. More recently she has edited the complete correspondence of Mary Wollstonecraft due out next year from Penguin, and she has been appointed co-editor of the Cambridge Jane Austen. Currently she is working on a study of the early life of Mary Wollstonecraft’s pupils, Mary and Margaret King from Michelstown, Ireland, and their involvement in the rebellion of 1798.
Welcome to Professor Robert Frost, who arrived in September 2004 from the History Department at King’s College London, to be Head of the School of Divinity, History and Philosophy. He is currently writing the Oxford History of the Polish-Lithuanian Union, 1385-1815 for OUP, and is launching a research project on regalism in Poland-Lithuania under the Vasa dynasty.
Welcome to Karin Friedrich, senior lecturer in History, who joined us from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, in January 2005 and who is working on a book on early modern Prussia in its East Central European context. She also specialises on the history of political ideas in early modern Central Europe and is preparing a book on the ’Making of the Prussian Monarchy 1701’, based on an edition of festival texts accompanying the coronation ceremony, together with Sara Smart of Exeter in the context of an AHRB project. She is joint editor of the journal German History and has taken over as (joint) managing director of CEMS.