Faculty at the EMC
Curriculum Vitae
Giles Bergel
Department of English
University of California, Santa Barbara
 

Education:

Ph.D. Queen Mary, University of London, 2004, English Literature: "William Dicey and Eighteenth-Century Print Culture"
  • Thesis Supervisors: Christopher Reid, Markman Ellis
  • Thesis Examiners: John Mullan, James Raven
  • M.A. Queen Mary, University of London, 1995, English Literature: "Writing and Society, 1700 - 1820"
    B.A. University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1994, English Literature (Hons)

    Employment:

    2006-present Arnhold Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara
    2005-2006 Research Assistant, Royal Holloway University of London
    1997-8, 2004-5, 2005-6 Visiting Lecturer, Royal Holloway University of London
    1996-2004 Teaching Assistant, Queen Mary University of London


    Grants and Fellowships:

    2006 University of Victoria Digital Humanities Summer Institute Fellowship
    Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) conference travel grant
    2005 Donald and Mary Hyde Fellowship, Houghton Library, Harvard College
    Bibliographical Society grant
    2004 Postgraduate Fellowship, British Book Trade History Conference, University of Edinburgh


    Publications:

    • "The Chicago Nineties: The Chap-Book (Chicago) 1894-98", Chapter 15 of The Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines (forthcoming)
    • "William Dicey and the Networks and Places of Print Culture", in John Hinks and Catherine Armstrong (eds.), Worlds of Print: Diversity in the Book Trade (British Library/Oak Knoll Press, 2006)

    Work in Progress:

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    Conference Papers and Academic Presentations:

    • DeMontfort University, Modernist Magazines Conference: The Modernist Atlantic, "Modernist Magazines and the Reinvention of the Chapbook in Britain and America" (July 2007)
    • Birkbeck College, University of London, Antisemitism and English Culture, "The Wandering Jew's Chronicle, 1634-1830" (July 2007)
    • American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Atlanta, "Versioning and Inheritance: The Wandering Jew's Chronicle and the Genealogies of the Ballad" (April 2007)
    • British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of Oxford, "'Of a much Lower Stamp': Popular Print and the Politics of Nostalgia" (April 2006)
    • University of Leicester Centre for Urban History, "Print Networks and Imagined Communities in Mid Eighteenth-Century Northamptonshire" (December 2005)
    • Chapbooks Study Day, Victoria and Albert Museum, "Definitions of Chapbooks and Chapbook Collections" (December 2005)
    • Material Cultures and the Creation of Knowledge, University of Edinburgh, "Letterforms in Copperplate and Script-Type: Cultures of Script and Print in the Eighteenth-Century" (July 2005)
    • American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Las Vegas, Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing Session, "Shifting the Boundaries of 'The Shift from Script to Print': The Case of Engraved Lettering" (April 2005)
    • British Book Trade History Conference, University of Edinburgh, "Local, Regional or National? The Dicey Press and the Networks and Spaces of Print" (July 2004)
    • Economics and Literature Conference, Queen Mary, University of London, "'Opportunities of Mutual Converse': Sentimental and Political Arithmetic in Eighteenth-Century Charitable Literature" (April 2004)
    • Centre for Writing and Publishing History Seminar, University of Reading, "Network and Place According to the Print Trade" (February 2004)
    • Queen's College, University of Cambridge, "Eighteenth-Century Almanacs" (2002)
    • North East American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Boston, "Partridge Liberatus: A Modest Plea for Almanacs" (October 1998)
    • Queen Mary, University of London, "The South Sea Bubble" (December 1997)