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Professor Crawford Gribben

MA (Dublin, j.o.) PhD (Strathclyde) FRHistS

Professor of Early Modern British History

Head of Postgraduate Studies

Tel: 028 9097 3680
Email: c.gribben@qub.ac.uk
Office: Room 202, 12 University Square

 

Before taking up my current position at Queen's in January 2013, Iheld posts in early modern literature and history in the University of Manchester and Trinity College Dublin, where I was elected a Fellow. I am also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.  

Research:

I am 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. My current projects in the earlier period include writing John Owen and English Puritanism (under contract to Oxford University Press) and editing Dublin: Renaissance City of Literature (with Kathleen Miller). My current projects in the later period include writing Survival and resistance in evangelical America (with Scott Spurlock, under contract to Oxford University Press). I serve as co-editor of a series of monographs and edited collections entitled 'Christianities in the trans-Atlantic world, 1550-1800' (Palgrave Macmillan), am a general editor of a major new multi-volume and multi-authored project entitled Calvin and Global Calvinism, 1509-2009. I direct the 'Radical Religion in the trans-Atlantic world, 1500-1800' project (funded by the Irish Research Council, 2012-13).

 

Select publications:

Monographs:

Edited collections:

A full list of my publications is available here.

Undergraduate teaching:

I am an enthusiastic teacher and supervisor of undergraduate students. Essays prepared by my students have been shortlisted for the Irish Undergraduate of the Year prize for history (2009) and have won the Irish Undergraduate of the Year prize for English (2010), and in 2013 two of my former BA dissertation students were awarded doctoral scholarships to Cambridge and NYU.

  • “The end of the world: A cultural history” (level 1)
  • “Uniting kingdoms? Britain and Ireland, 1603-1801” (level 2)
  • “Radical religion in the British and Irish civil wars” (level 3)
  • “Book history: Texts, contexts, cultures” (MA / PhD Digital Arts and Humanities)

PhDs and Postdocs:

I am a committed supervisor of doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers.  I have supervised PhDs in a range of topics related to the literary cultures of Puristanism and evengelicalism, including an intellectual history of 'Calvin's case' (1608); antinomianism in the trans-Atlantic world, 1630-1690; Royalists women writers in exile, 1640-1660 (funded by the IRC); the literary culture of plague, 1665-1667 (funded by PRTLI); the life and writing of Robert Govett (1813-1901); and evangelicals and apolcalyptic thinking during the Northern Ireland 'troubles' (funded by PRTLI).  I welcome further proposals in these areas.

I have mentored several postdoctoral research fellows whose projects have included The Minutes of the Antrim Ministers, 1654-8 (funded by the Ulster Scots Agency, 2008, and published by Four Courts, 2012); 'Christian Zionism and English identity' (funded by IRCHSS, 2011-13); and 'Memorialising the killing times: History, religion and nation in pre-Enlightenment Scotland' (funded by IRCHSS, 2011-14).

Belfast offers outstanding resources to students wishing to pursue doctoral or postdoctoral research in early modern and modern religious history, including missionary archives relating to Amy Carmichael and a multitude of denominational and inter-denominational societies, held in PRONI and in various denominational repositories. I am interested in hearing from anyone who is interested in pursuing doctoral or postdoctoral research on the literary cultures of Puritanism and evangelicalism in an inter-disciplinary context.