New appointment for CECS

Posted on 16 May 2013

CECS is delighted to announce the appointment from October 2013 of Professor Jon Mee. Jon's research has been a shaping force in scholarship on the Romantic period in recent years.

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His numerous publications in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century studies include Conversable Worlds Literature, Contention, and Community 1762-1830 (Oxford University Press, 2011), which was nominated for the Louis Gottschalk Prize (2012) of the American Society of the Eighteenth-Century Studies and the James Russell Lowell Prize (2012) of the MLA, and praised as 'impressive, exhaustive and dazzling', and Romanticism, Enthusiasm, and Regulation: Poetics and the Policing of Culture in the Romantic Period (Oxford University Press, 2003), welcomed in YWES as ‘without a doubt the most important contribution to general Romantic era studies this year'. Jon has taught at the Australian National University and Oxford University, and most recently at Warwick. In 2013-14 he will hold a research fellowship as part of his Leverhulme-funded project on ‘Networks of Improvement: British Literary Clubs and Societies c.1760-c.1840’, and expects to participate fully in the research cultures of the Centre and the English Department.