Davy Scholars
Tim Fulford (De Montfort University)Tim Fulford is Professor of English at De Montfort University. He is co-editor of The Collected Letters of Robert Southey (ongoing) and co-author of Literature, Science and Exploration in the Romantic Era: Bodies of Knowledge (2004). His other recent publications include The Late Poetry of the Lake Poets (2013) and an electronic critical edition of Robert Bloomfield’s The Banks of Wye (2012). |
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Jan Golinski (University of New Hampshire)Jan Golinski is Professor of History and Humanities at the University of New Hampshire. He is author of Science as Public Culture: Chemistry and Enlightenment in Britain, 1760-1820 (1992) and Making Natural Knowledge: Constructivism and the History of Science (1998; new edition, 2005). His latest book is British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment (2007). He is currently working on a biographical study of Davy, and on the sciences of the environment in the era of Romanticism. |
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Frank James (Head of Collections, Royal Institution)Frank James is Professor of the History of Science at the Royal Institution, where he is also Head of Collections and Heritage. His main research concentrates on the physical sciences in the nineteenth century and how they relate to other areas of society and culture, for example art, business, media, religion, technology, and the military. He is editor of the six-volume The Correspondence of Michael Faraday (1991-2012), and his Michael Faraday: A Very Short Introduction was published by Oxford University Press in 2010. He has edited a number of collections of essays including ‘The Common Purposes of Life’: Science and Society at the Royal Institution of Great Britain (2002). He has been President of the Newcomen Society for the History of Engineering and Technology, the British Society for the History of Science, and the History of Science Section of the British Science Association. For a full list of publications, see here. |
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David Knight (Durham University)David Knight has taught History of Science at Durham University since 1964, was President of the British Society for the History of Science in 1994-96, and published Humphry Davy: Science and Power in 1992 (2nd edition, 1996). |
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Andrew Lacey (Lancaster University)Andrew Lacey is Senior Research Associate at Lancaster University. Since completing his PhD at Newcastle University in 2012, he has worked as Research Assistant on two Romantic-period editions: volume three of The Letters of William Godwin (Oxford University Press, forthcoming), and volume four of The Poems of Shelley (Routledge, 2013). He joined the Davy Letters Project in 2014. |
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Sharon Ruston (Lancaster University)Sharon Ruston is Chair of Romanticism at Lancaster University. She is author of Shelley and Vitality (2005) and Romanticism: An Introduction (2007), and editor of Literature and Science (2008) and Teaching Romanticism (2010). She is also leading the AHRC collaborative doctoral training programme ‘Theories and Methods: Literature, Science and Medicine’. She also has a blog. |
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