School of Humanities and Social Sciences

• History
• English Literature

• 'The Making of the Modern Self'
• 'Enlightenment and Modernity'
• '19th C British History'
• '19th C English Literature as British History'
• 'The Origins of the Novel'

• Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850 (ed with Sarah Knott), Palgrave Press (2005; pbk 2007).
• On Kindness (with Adam Phillips), Penguin, 2009; Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2009. (http://us.macmillan.com/onkindness)
• ‘Separations of Soul: Solitude, Biography, History’, American Historical Review, June 2009

I am currently writing a book on solitude in Enlightenment Britain, and editing a volume of essays on psychoanalysis and history (Clio's Dream: Encounters between Psychoanalysis and History, co-edited with Sally Alexander).

Translations since 2001:

• 2001: “Sex and Skill: Notes Toward a Feminist Economics” (with Anne Phillips), Feminist Review, no 6, 1980. Hungarian translation, in Judit Borus (ed), Do Women Have a History? (Balassi Kiadó, Budapest, 2001).
• 2002: “For the Love of God: Religion and the Erotic Imagination in Wollstonecraft’s Feminism” in E Yeo (ed) Mary Wollstonecraft and 200 Years of Feminisms (London, Rivers Oram, 1997). Japanese translation published by Gendai Shicho Shinsha (2002).
• 2009: On Kindness. Translated into Italian (2009), Spanish, French, and German (2010)

Reprints since 2001:

• 2001: “Mary Wollstonecraft and the Wild Wish of Early Feminism”, History Workshop Journal, no 33, 1992; reprinted in Fiona Montgomery (ed), European Women’s History: a Reader (London, Routledge, 2001).
• 2001: “Feminism and Misogyny: the Case of Mary Wollstonecraft”, in Constellations: an International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory, 6:4, 1999; reprinted in C Jones and D Wahrman, The Age of Cultural Revolutions: Britain and France, 1750-1830 (University of California Press, 2001).
•  2006: ‘In Defense of ‘Patriarchy’’ (with Sally Alexander), The New Statesman 1 February; reprinted in Susan Morgan (ed), The Feminist History Reader (Routledge, 2006).
• 2009:  ‘The Religious Foundations of Mary Wollstonecraft’s Feminism’, in Claudia Johnson, ed, Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft (Cambridge University Press); reprinted in Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Norton Critical Edition (Deidre Lynch, ed), 2009.

Monographs

• Eve and the New Jerusalem (Virago, 1983; Pantheon, 1983; Harvard University Press, 1992). 
• Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination (Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp 331, xvi; 0-521-00417-9.
• On Kindness (with Adam Phillips), Hamish Hamilton; Farrer Straus and Giroux, 2009.

Book chapters and Journal articles (2000 - 2007)

• ‘The Religious Foundations of Mary Wollstonecraft’s Feminism’, in Claudia Johnson, ed, Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft (Cambridge University Press, 2002). Reprinted in Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Norton Critical Edition (Deidre Lynch, ed), 2009.
• ‘Heroic Families and Utopian Histories’, Historien, 3, 2002.
• ‘How Near, How Far: Distance and Proximity in the Historical Imagination’, History Workshop Journal, 57, 2004.
• ‘Feminists versus Gallants: Sexual Manners and Morals in Enlightenment Britain’, Representations, 87, 2004; reprinted in Sarah Knott and Barbara Taylor, eds, Women, Gender, and Enlightenment, 1650-1850, Palgrave Press, 2005.
• ‘Emma Martin’, ‘Frances Morrison’, ‘Elizabeth Macauley’, ‘Catherine Barmby’, ‘Mary Wollstonecraft’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Basil Blackwell, 2004).
• ‘Mary Wollstonecraft. Sobre mujer y vida pública’ [‘Mary Wollstonecraft on Women and Public Life’], in Rosa Capel (ed) Mujeres para la Historia. Figuras destacadas del primer feminismo (Madrid, Abada editores, 2004)

Journalism (since 2002)

• Review of E Showalter, Inventing Herself, London Review of Books, 3 January 2002.
• ‘Champion of Her Sex?’, BBC History Magazine, April 2003.
• [Writing as Eve Blake], ‘Diary’, London Review of Books, 8 May 2003.
• ‘Vindication of the Heart’, Guardian Review, 12.04.03 (cover article).
• Review of T Laqueur, Solitary Sex, London Review of Books, 6 May 2004.
• Review of M Toews, A Complicated Kindness, London Review of Books, 2 June 2005.
• ‘Amazons of the Pen’, Guardian Review, 10.9.05
• Review of J Barrell, The Spirit of Despotism, London Review of Books, 8 Feb 2007.
• [With Adam Phillips], ‘Love Thy Neighbour’, Guardian, 3 January, 2009.
• ‘Kind Women and Capitalism’, Royral Society of the Arts Journal, March 2009.

Radio Appearances

• BBC Radio 3: ‘Nightwaves’, January 2009
• BBC Radio Leeds: interview, March 2009.
• Norwegian Radio (NRK): interview, April 2009.
• BBC Radio 4: ‘In Our Time’, December 2009.

I am the author of two children’s books, one of which has been made into a film (National Film Board of Canada)

Selected conference papers and invited lectures (2005- 2009)

• ‘Did Women Have an Enlightenment?’ Notre Dame Gender Studies Research Workshop, 2009.

• ‘Distance and Historical Subjectivity’, Conference on ‘Historical Distance’, King’s College London, 2009.

• ‘Enlightenment Uses of Woman’, ‘Enlightenment Legacies’ Symposium, Nobel Museum, Stockholm, 2009.

• ‘Alone in Norway: Mary Wollstonecraft’s Scandinavian Journey’ [lecture for the 250th anniversary of Wollstonecraft’s birth], Oslo University, 2009.

• ‘Kind Women and Anti Women’, Cambridge public lecture and roundtable, 2009.

• ‘On Kindness’, Royal Society of the Arts, 2009.

• ‘Woman Over Time’. Keynote Lecture. Feminism and History Conference, Bishopsgate Institute (2008).

• ‘The Pleasures of Kindness’. Birkbeck History Seminar (2007).

• ‘Infidel Idealism’, Plenary Comment, Conference: ‘Romantic Infidels’, University of Roehampton (2007) 

• ‘Separations of Soul: Mary Wollstonecraft’s Solitude’. Enlightenment Seminar, Oxford University (2007).

• ‘Wollstonecraft and Solitude’. Lecture, Gender Studies Programme. Notre Dame University (2007).

• ‘Historians reading Rousseau.’ Conference: ‘The Place of Philosophy in Enlightenment Studies: Disciplinary Exchanges’, Institute of Advanced Studies, Edinburgh University (2007).

• ‘Solitary Selves: Wollstonecraft, Rousseau, and the Vicissitudes of Solitude’. Rousseau Symposium, School of Advanced Studies, University of London (2006).

• ‘Wollstonecraft and Enlightenment’, Women and Gender Seminar, University of Wales, Swansea (2005).

• ‘Solitary Passions’. Conference: ‘Passion and Fantasy, The Work of Cora Kaplan’ University of London (2005).

• ‘History, Self, Psyche’. Peter Wall Lecture, Peter Wall Institute of Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia (2005).

• ‘Wollstonecraft’s Legacies’, Willamette University, Oregon (2005).

• ‘History Workshop Journal and the Decline of Leftwing Utopianism’, Representations and History Workshop Journal: Joint Symposium on Leftwing and Rightwing Utopias,  University of California, Berkeley (2005).

Research Grants

• 'Feminism and Enlighenment, 1650-1850’. Leverhulme Institutional Grant, September 1998-September 2001. 69K.  This project, of which I was Director, ran from September 1998 to August 2001, co-sponsored by the Department of Cultural Studies, University of East London and the History Department, Royal Holloway, and funded by the Leverhulme Trust. The project was a collaboration among over 100 historians, literary scholars, philosophers, and political scientists from 78 universities in North America, Spain, France, Australia, Holland, Germany, Italy, Scotland, England and Wales - making it the largest international research project on Enlightenment thought and culture ever to be undertaken. It held six day-conferences and eighteen seminars. In September 2001 the project re-organised itself into the ‘Gender and Enlightenment’ research network, of which I became the convenor. A programme of seminars and colloquia was undertaken, resulting in five further conferences, one held at the Clark Library in Los Angeles.

  A volume of thirty-five articles written for the project and edited by myself and Sarah Knott was published as Women, Gender and Enlightenment in 2005 (Palgrave Press). A prospectus for the project was published in History Workshop Journal, 74 (1999), and a midway account of its development appeared in Women: a Cultural Review (12:2, 2001).

Key publications pre 2001:

• 2003: Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination (Cambridge University Press)
• 2002 “The Religious Foundations of Mary Wollstonecraft’s Feminism”, in Claudia Johnson, ed, Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft (Cambridge University Press)
• 2002 “Heroic Families and Utopian Histories”, Historien, 3.
• 1999 “Feminism and the Enlightenment, 1650-1850: a Comparative History”, History Workshop Journal, issue 47.
• 1999 “Feminism and Misogyny: the Case of Mary Wollstonecraft”, in Constellations: an International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory, 6:4, 1999; reprinted in C Jones and D Wahrman, The Age of Cultural Revolutions: Britain and France, 1750-1830 (University of California Press, 2001).
• 1997 “For the Love of God: Religion and the Erotic Imagination in Wollstonecraft’s Feminism” in E Yeo (ed) Mary Wollstonecraft and 200 Years of Feminisms (London, Rivers Oram). Spanish translation in Historia Moderna, vol 19 (1998); Japanese translation published by Gendai Shicho Shinsha (2002).
• 1992 “Mary Wollstonecraft and the Wild Wish of Early Feminism”, History Workshop Journal, no 33; reprinted in The School Field: International Journal of Theory and Research in Education, vol 4, no 3/4 (1993) and in Fiona Montgomery (ed), European Women’s History: a Reader (London, Routledge, 2001).
• 1983 Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century (London,Virago and New York, Pantheon, 1983; Harvard University Press, 1993). Awarded the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize 1983.

Editorships/panel committee memberships

• Fellow, Royal Historical Society.
• Editorial Board and Reviews Editor, History Workshop Journal
• Advisory Board, Modern Intellectual History, 2207 - 2010
• Advisor, Palgrave Series in Intellectual and Cultural History
• Consultant, History of Feminism Archive, Centre for Life History, University of Sussex

Institute of Historical Research

I convene the ‘Psychoanalysis and History’ seminar [1994- ongoing (with Prof Sally Alexander, Goldsmiths College)], and a series of thrice-annual symposia, ‘Conversations and Disputations: Discussions Among Historians’, which is co-sponsored by the IHR and the Raphael Samuel History Centre. I was a member of the Institute’s Advisory Council from 2003 to 2006, and am now a member of the Advisory Board for HistoryLab and HistoryLab Plus (IHR-sponsored organisation of early career historians).

PhD Supervision

• Arianne Chernock: ‘Champions of the Fair Sex: Men and the Creation of Modern British Feminism, 1788 - 1800’ (Berkeley, 2004).
• Laura Schwartz: ‘Infidel Feminism: Secularism, Religion and Women’s Rights in England c.1830-1889’ (UEL, 2009).
• Susan Allen: ‘Women of the left and Peace Campaigning Before Greenham, 1950-1970’ (to be submitted autumn 2010).

Other interests/awards

• Mackenzie King Graduate Scholarship: Govt of Canada: 1971
• Canada Council Doctoral Fellowship: 1972/3/4/5
• Nuffield Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship: 1983
• Social Science and Humanities Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship: 1984/5/6
• Visiting Fellowship: Clare Hall, Cambridge: 1984/5
• Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship: 1996/7
• British Council in Canada, Professional Exchange Grant: 1997
• British Academy Research Leave Grant: 1997
• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Research Fellowship: 1998
• Leverhulme Trust Institutional Fellowship: 1998-2001
• Book prize: Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize, 1983 [for Eve and the New Jerusalem]