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Professor Wil Verhoeven

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Wil Verhoeven

Professor Wil Verhoeven

School of Arts, English and Languages

Professor Verhoeven's general research field can be described as the study of structures of continuity and rupture in the Age of Revolution and Enlightenment in the Atlantic World, 1600-1800.

Consistently marrying archival research with cultural theory, and historiography with the history of ideas, his work explores the evolving symbiosis between historical event and historical consciousness, between power and knowledge, agency and identity.

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  • Wil.Verhoeven@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0)28 9097 5309

Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in the field of

  • British and American culture, literature and history, 1600-1900
  • American studies
  • Historical biography
  • Cultural theory
  • History of the book and textual culture

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Public outreach & key achievements

  • Details of recent projects are available on PURE
  • Americomania and the French revolution debate in Britain
  • Professor Verhoeven's award-winning publications have generated paradigm shifts in the interdisciplinary study of American and transatlantic history and culture, particularly in the era of the great eighteenth-century revolutions Visiting Research Scholar at the Department of American Studies at Brown University, Providence, RI (2012 - present)
  • (Inaugural) Charles H. Watts II Professor in the History of the Book and Historical Bibliography, Endowed Visiting Professorship at Brown University, Providence, RI (2002-2003)

Research students

PhD Title Re-Orient-ing Early American Culture: Oriental Tales in American Magazines from the Revolutionary to the Antebellum Period
   
PhD Title  The Titanic: A Cultural History
   
PhD Title  Das Partizipationsbegriff im Rahmen von lokalen öffentlichen Erinnerungsprojekten
   
PhD Title ‘It’s Just a Game’: The Poetics of Gaming

 


Alumni: Where are they now

PhD Title Impious Renewal: The Holocaust and Jewish American Literature after Postmodernism
   
PhD Title The Musically Sublime: Indeterminacy, Infinity, Irresolvability
   
PhD Title  Sex, Lies and Violence in the Work of Kathy Acker and Mary Gaitskill
   
PhD Title The Newfoundland Outport Novel
   

 

 


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