Ballot Archive

07 Feb 2019

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Andrew Rudd

Academic degrees, honours etc.

BA English Durham University(1st); M. Phil. from Cambridge(Dist); PhD from Cambridge.

Profession or occupation

University lecturer

Grounds for election

Dr Andrew Rudd works primarily on the literature and culture of the Romantic period. He has written on the following areas: the literature and history of British India; Romantic orientalism; Romantic poetry; links between literature and early 19th-century architecture. He is currently researching depictions of charity in Romantic-period literature and art, and also has interests in 20th-century maritime travel and exploration. He has held numerous visiting fellowships (most recently at Yale’s Lewis Walpole Library and the School of Advanced Studies in English, University of Jadavpur) and speaks regularly at conferences, seminars and public events. Since 2015, he has been a member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Peer Review College. He is the author of the monograph Sympathy and India in British Literature, 1770-1830 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and several articles and book chapters.

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