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School welcomes new Professor

Crawford Gribben joins the School as Professor of Early Modern British History in January 2013.

He is a a cultural and literary historian whose work concentrates on the development and dissemination of religious ideas, especially in terms of apocalyptic and millennial thought, in the print cultures of Puritanism and evangelicalism. His current projects in the earlier period include writing John Owen and English Puritanism and editing Dublin: Renaissance City of Literature. He serves as co-editor of a series of monographs and edited collections entitled 'Christianities in the trans-Atlantic world, 1550-1800' (Palgrave Macmillan), and is a general editor of a major new multi-volume and multi-authored project entitled Calvin and Global Calvinism 1509-2009. He also directs the 'Radical Religion in the trans-Atlantic world, 1500-1800' project (funded by the Irish Research Council, 2012-13).

Professor Gribben joins us from TCD, where he held posts in early-modern literature and history. He will be an Institute Fellow of the QUB Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities January-September 2013.

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