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School of Divinity, History and Philosophy,Room: 110 (History) or HMA4 (Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies)
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King's College,
University of Aberdeen,
Old Aberdeen,
AB24 3FX. Tel: +44 (0) 1224-272472 (History) or + 44 (0) 1224-273685 (RIISS)
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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.
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Research Interests
Dr Brown's work concerns political and moral discourse in eighteenth-century Scotland and Ireland. He is interested in how the Euroipean Enlightenment intersected with religious and political identities. His approach is often comparative and interdisciplinary, with a focus on literary and philosophical writings.
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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.
He is also writing a textbook entitled The Birth of Modernity: A Cultural History of Europe, 1700-1900. 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).
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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).
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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.
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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
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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.
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Admin Responsibilities
Dr Brown is a member of the Graduate Studies Committee and the Research Committee of the College of Arts and Social Sciences. As Discipline Research Leader for History, he is playing a central role in organising the REF 2014 submission for History and History of Art. Convening the Research Seminar Series at the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies, he is the instigator and organiser of a public lecture series, held in collaboration with Aberdeen City Council, entitled 'Great Aberdonians'.
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Publications
Contributions to Journals
Articles
- Brown, MP. (2012). 'The Biter Bitten: Ireland and the Rude Enlightenment'. Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol 45, no. 3, pp. 393-407.
- Brown, MP. (2010). 'Creating Conspiracies: John Toland’s Art of Restoring and Hanoverian Paranoia'. Eighteenth Century Ireland Iris an da Chultur, vol 25, pp. 48-61.
- Brown, MP. (2008). 'Was there an Irish Enlightenment?: The Case of the Anglicans'. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, pp. 49-64.
- Brown, MP. (2008). 'A Scottish Literati in France: The Case of Sir James Hall'. Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies, vol 2, no. 1, pp. 73-100.
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings
Chapters
- Brown, MP. (in press). 'Enlightenment and Revolution: A British Problematic'. in: Cultures of Radicalism in Britain and Ireland. Poetry and Song in the Age of Revolution, vol. 3, Pickering & Chatto, London, pp. 1-24.
- Brown, MP. (2011). 'Outwith the Pale: Irish-Scottish Studies as an Act of Translation'. P Mackay, E Longley & F Brearton (eds), in: Modern Irish and Scottish Poetry. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom, pp. 313-327.
- Brown, MP. (2011). 'Farmer and Fool: Henry Brooke and the late Irish Enlightenment'. SP Donlan & MP Brown (eds), in: The Law and Other Legalities of Ireland, 1689-1850. Ashgate, Farnham, United Kingdom, pp. 301-325.
- Brown, MP. (2010). 'Configuring the Irish Enlightenment : Reading the Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy'. J Kelly & M Powell (eds), in: Clubs and Societies in Eighteenth-Century Ireland. Four Courts Press, Dublin, Ireland.
- Brown, MP. (2009). 'The Place of Learning in Eighteenth-Century Dublin'. M McCarthy & A Simmons (eds), in: Marsh Library's: A Mirror on the World: Law, Learning and Libraries, 1650-1750. Four Courts Press, Dublin, Ireland, pp. 104-126.
- Brown, MP. (2006). 'Teaching Irish Studies In Ireland: After the End'. in: Ireland Beyond Boundaries, Pluto Press, London. Ireland Beyond Boundaries, Pluto Press, London, pp. 58-67.
- Brown, MP. (2006). 'The National Identity of Edmund Burke'. SP Donlan (ed.), in: Edmund Burke's Irish Identities. Irish Academic Press, Dublin, Ireland, pp. 201-225.
- Brown, MP. (2003). 'The Injured lady and Her British Problem: The Union in Political Thought'. in: The Irish Act of Union, 1800, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, eds M Brown, PM Geoghegan, J Kelly. The Irish Act of Union, 1800, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, eds M Brown, PM Geoghegan, J Kelly, pp. 37-49.
Books and Reports
Books
- Kirk, J., Brown, MP. & Noble, A. (eds) (2013). 'Cultures of Radicalism in Britain and Ireland'. Poetry and Song in the Age of Revolution, Pickering & Chatto, London.
- Brown, MP. (2012). 'A Political Biography of John Toland'. Eighteenth-Century Political Biographies, no. 8, Pickering & Chatto.
- Brown, MP., Kirk, J. & Noble, A. (eds) (2012). 'United Islands?: The Languages of Resistance'. Poetry and Song in the Age of Revolution, vol. 1, Pickering & Chatto, London.
- Brown, MP. & Donlan, SP. (eds) (2011). 'The Law and Other Legalities of Ireland, 1689-1850'. Ashgate, Farnham.
- Brown, MP., McGrath, CI. & Power, TP. (eds) (2005). 'Converts and Conversion in Ireland, 1650-1850'. Four Courts Press, Dublin, Ireland.
- Brown, MP., Geoghegan, PM. & Kelly, J. (eds) (2003). 'The Irish Act of Union, 1800: Bicentennial Essays'. Irish Academic Press, Dublin.
- Brown, MP. (2002). 'Francis Hutcheson in Dublin, 1719-1730: The Crucible of his Thought'. Four Courts Press, Dublin.
- Brown, MP. (ed.) & Harrison, SH. (2000). 'The Medieval World and the Modern Mind'. Four Courts Press, Dublin.
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