Gillian Russell

Research

Overview

Gillian Russell is author of The Theatres of War: Performance, Politics and Culture, 1793-1815 (Oxford, 1995), Romantic Sociability: Social Networks and Literary Culture 1770-1840 (Cambridge, 2002), co-edited with Clara Tuite, Women, Sociability and Theatre in Georgian London (Cambridge, 2007), and Tracing War in British Enlightenment and Romantic Culture (Palgrave, 2015), co-edited with Neil Ramsey.  A monograph entitled The Ephemeral Eighteenth Century: Print, Sociability and the Cultures of Collecting is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press.  Current research projects include studies of Regency ‘Flash’ culture in Britain, Ireland, and Australia, Charles Lamb’s sociability, and political ephemera in Britain and Ireland. 

Gillian has supervised many PhDs in a range of fields with topics including:

• '‘The Future Arrives Late’: Queering the Ladies of Llangollen'
• 'The Military Memoir and Romantic Literary Culture, 1780-1835'
• 'The Politics of Songs in Eighteenth Century Britain'
• 'Representations of China in British Children’s Fiction 1851-1911'