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Dr Carr, Rosalind

Contact details

Position: Lecturer

Location: Docklands EB2.19

Telephone: 020 8223 7831

Email: r.j.carr@uel.ac.uk

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School of Arts and Digital Industries

University of East London

Docklands Campus

University Way

London E16 2RD

Brief biography

Rosalind Carr is a cultural historian of early modern Britain, specialising in gender in eighteenth-century Scotland. She completed her PhD at the University of Glasgow and has previously lectured in history at Glasgow and Sheffield universities. Having recently completed a short postdoctoral fellowship in Edinburgh, she is currently working on the monograph Gender and Enlightenment Culture in Eighteenth-Century Scotland (contracted to Edinburgh University Press).

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Areas of Interest/Summary of Expertise

Gender and cultural history; urbanity; national identities; masculinity and violence; imperial interactions.

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Teaching: Modules

  • CC3000 Dissertation: History
  • CC1401 Patterns of Imperial History
  • CC1300 Critical Approaches to Humanities (co-taught with Dr Marianne Wells) 
  • CC1406 Britain in the Long 19th Century
  • CC3407 Enlightenment and Modernity 

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Current research and publications

Journal Articles:

  • ‘Female Correspondence and Early Modern Scottish Political History: A Case Study of the Anglo-Scottish Union’, Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques, 37:2 (2011), pp. 39-57.
  • (with K. Barclay, R. Elliot & A. Hughes), ‘Introduction: Gender and Generations, Women and Lifecycles’, Special Issue of the Women’s History Review, 20:2 (2011), pp. 175-188.
  • ‘Women and Darien: Female Participation in a Scottish Attempt at Empire, c.1696-1706’, Women’s History Magazine, 61 (Autumn/Winter 2009), pp. 14-20.
  • ‘The Gentleman and the Soldier: Patriotic Masculinities in Eighteenth-Century Scotland’, Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, 28:2 (2008), pp. 102-121.

Chapters in Books:

Newsletter Articles:

  • ‘Masculinity and Space in Enlightenment Edinburgh’, Newsletter of the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, (June 2011), pp. 7-9.

Book reviews in Gender & History; Reviews in History; Humanities and Social Sciences Online; Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies; War in History.

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Other scholarly activities

Steering Committee Member, Women's History Scotland

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