British Studies at Vanderbilt

British studies at Vanderbilt cover a wide, interdisciplinary range.  The main disciplines are history, literature, art history, and religion, but the program embraces the humanities, social sciences, and professional schools.  British studies boast a large and distinguished faculty who teach a diverse curriculum, in terms of their approach, chronological focus, and geographical reach.  British studies sponsors guest lectures, symposia, and film series to which faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students are invited to attend. 

Current (History) faculty include: 
James Epstein (19th-century Caribbean)
Peter Lake (Early modern English history, with an emphasis on religion, politics and culture)
Paul C. Lim (Intellectual history of seventeenth-century England; Reformation- and post-Reformation history of Christian thought)
Catherine Molineux (British Atlantic History)
Moses Ochonu (Modern Sub-Saharan Africa; colonialism; postcolonial developments; political economy; African social and economic history)
Samira Sheikh (South Asian history, with emphasis on western India; social and political history)
Alistair Sponsel (History of science; modern Britain and the British Empire; exploration; marine environmental history)

Current (English) faculty include: 
Vereen Bell (Modern British poetry)
Jay Clayton (Romantic and Victorian literature)
Colin Dayan (English  and American  literary history)
Carolyn Dever (Victorian literature)
Lynn Enterline (Early modern literature)
Humberto Garcia (18th-century and romantic literature)
Roy Gottfried (20th-century British literature)
Scott Juengel (18th-century and romantic literature)
Jonathan Lamb (18th - century British literature)
Leah Marcus (Early modern literature)
Roger Moore (Early modern literature)
Bridget Orr ( 18th-century literature)
John Plummer (Medieval literature, Chaucer)
Mark Schoenfield (Romanticism)
Kathryn Schwarz (Early modern literature)
Rachel Teukolsky (Victorian literature)
Mark Wollaeger (20th-century British literature and film)

Affiliated Programs
18th-/19th-Century Colloquium at Vanderbilt University

This colloquium features new scholarship on the arts, cultures, and histories of the 18th and 19th centuries, with an emphasis on work by visiting or Vanderbilt faculty members. While loosely focused around British culture, we will also invite scholars from other linguistic and geographic fields to present work and join in the discussion. We will be emphasizing interdisciplinary conversations, with events to include an roundtable on aesthetics and a forum on comparative religion.

All faculty and graduate students interested in 18th- and 19th-century culture are invited to attend; please contact one of the seminar coordinators Rachel Teukolsky (English) or Scott Juengel (English) for more information or to be added to the group listserv.