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
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 |