EMC Graduate Students


Sören C. Hammerschmidt

Sören

Academic Positions:

Mar-Aug 2010 Postdoctoral Fellow, The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh

2009-2010  Senior Fellow, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) (declined)

Education:

2002-2009  PhD in English, UCSB
MA Exam Fields: Renaissance Literature; Restoration & Eighteenth-Century Literature; British Romantic & Victorian Literature

2001-2002 MSc by Research in English Literature (with Distinction), University of Edinburgh
Thesis: “Change and the City: Social, Cultural, and Economic Spaces, and the Building of Edinburgh’s First New Town, 1752-1802,” with Susan Manning (chair) and Robert Irvine

1997-2001 MA (Hons) in English Literature (with First Class Honors), University of Edinburgh
Junior year (1999–2000) spent at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Honors Thesis: “‘Carved in Fine Flowers and Birds All over Her Body’: Colonial/Consumer Culture and the Portraiture of Female Figures, 1660-1760,” with Colin Nicholson

Email: soren_hammerschmidt@umail.ucsb.edu

 

Areas of Interest


Current Projects and Publications

Dissertation title: “Reading Character: Familiar Correspondence, Social Identity, and Print, c.1735-1820”
Dissertation committee: Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook and William B. Warner (co-chairs), Julie Carlson.

Publications

"Barbauld's Richardson; or The Canonization of Private Character" (under submission)
“Character, Cultural Agency, and Abolition: Ignatius Sancho’s Published Letters.” Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 31.2 (June 2008): 259-73.
“Ramsay, Fergusson, Thomson, Davidson, and Urban Poetry.” The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature, Vol. Two: Enlightenment, Britain and Empire (1707-1918). Period ed. Susan Manning. Gen. ed. Ian Brown. Co-ed. Thomas Owen Clancy and Murray Pittock. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2006. 80-89.

Works in Progress

“Receiving Lady Mary: Letters, Lives, Literature” (article)
“Social Authorship, Print, and Privacy in the Letters of Anne MacVicar Grant” (article)

Selected Awards and Honors

Donald Pearce Dissertation Fellowship, English Department, UCSB, 2009
TA Instructional Improvement Grant, Academic Senate, UCSB, 2009
Travel Grant, Consortium for Literature, Theory and Culture, UCSB, 2008
Graduate Student Travel Grant, Academic Senate, UCSB, 2007
Graduate Research Mentorship Program Fellowship, UCSB, 2006-7
Humanities/Social Sciences Research Grant, UCSB, 2007
ASECS-Clark Fellowship, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA, 2005
English Department Fellowship, UCSB, 2002-3
Yvonne Gartrell Memorial Scholarship, English Department, UCSB, 2002

Selected Presentations

2009     “Social Networks and Group Biography in Published Correspondence of the Long Eighteenth Century,” 125th Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association (scheduled for Dec 27-30; Philadelphia, PA)
2009     “The Character(s) of a Novelist; or, Barbauld’s Richardson,” 38th Annual Meeting of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (Jan 6-8; Oxford)
2008     “Mothers and Reformers: Revising Female Character in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Letters Written during a Short Residence,” UCLA Eighteenth-Century/Romantic Working Group (June 6; Los Angeles, CA)
2008     “Editing Letters, Editing Character: Anna Barbauld’s Correspondence of Samuel Richardson,” 39th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (Mar 27-30; Portland, OR)
2007     “A Life in Transit: Travel, Maternity, and the Progress of Civilization in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Letters Written during a Short Residence,” International Conference on Romanticism 2007: Romantic Objects (October 18-21; Baltimore, MD)
2007     “Characters, Cultural Agency, and Abolition: Ignatius Sancho’s Published Letters,” 36th Annual Meeting of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (Jan 3-5; Oxford)
2005     “‘An act of necessity’: Pope, Curll, and the Publication of Private Letters,” 36th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (Mar 31-Apr 3; Las Vegas, NV)
2003     “How Clothing ‘Makes mony kail-worms butter-flies’: Social Identity and Consumer Culture in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh,” 11th Annual Conference of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies (Oct 23-26; Newport Beach, CA)
2003     “Streetwalkers, Homemakers, and the Female Poet: Isabella Whitney’s Negotiations of Urban, Literary and Domestic Spaces in A Sweet Nosegay,” Renaissance Conference of Southern California (May 16-17; Huntington Library, San Marino, CA)

Academic Service

2009     Conceived and chaired panel, “Writing Lives and Judging Character: The Ethics of a Genre,” 38th Annual Meeting of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (Jan 6-8; Oxford)
2009     Chaired panel, “Richardson #2,” 38th Annual Meeting of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (Jan 6-8; Oxford)
2007-8  Initiated and convened UCSB Early Modern Studies Work-in-Progress Series (continues in 2008-9 as part of the Early Modern Center Colloquium)
2008     Convened Early Modern Center’s 7th Annual Undergraduate Conference, “Science & Technology, 1500-1800” (May 30; UCSB)
2008     Conceived and chaired panel, “The ‘Character’ of the Long Eighteenth Century,” 39th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (Mar 27-30; Portland, OR)
2007-8  Conference committee chair, 8th Annual Winter Conference of the Early Modern Center, “Science and Technology, 1500-1800” (Mar 14; UCSB)
2007-8  Convened UCSB Eighteenth Century Reading Group
2007     Convened Early Modern Center’s Fall Colloquium, “Slavery and Abolition” (invited speakers: Maureen Quilligan and Lynn Festa) (Nov 2; UCSB)
2004-5  Conference committee member, 5th Annual Winter Conference of the Early Modern Center, “Memory: 1500-1800” (Feb 25; UCSB)
2004     Respondent, Early Modern Center’s Fall Colloquium, “Memory: 1500-1800” (invited speakers: Peter Stallybrass and Jayne Lewis) (Nov 5; UCSB)

Professional Affiliations

Modern Language Association
American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
Eighteenth Century Scottish Studies Society

Languages

German (native speaker)
English
Dutch
French

Teaching Experience