Sören C. Hammerschmidt PhD Candidate, English, University of California, Santa Barbara; Ph.D. expected 2009 MSc by Research in English Literature, with Distinction (with Honours), University of Edinburgh, UK, 2002 MA (Hons) English Literature, First Class Honours (summa cum laude), University of Edinburgh, UK, 2001 University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170 email: soren_hammerschmidt@umail.ucsb.edu

Areas of Interest

• Eighteenth-century British literature
• Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Scottish literature
• Life writing
• Epistolarity and epistolary writing
• History of Reading and History of the Book
• Eighteenth-century poetry and poetics

Current Projects and Publications

Dissertation title: “Of Life Writing and Character: Familiar Correspondences on British Print Markets, 1735-1805.”
Dissertation committee: Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook and William B. Warner (co-chairs), Julie Carlson.

• “Which Pope? Reading Character in Alexander Pope’s Published Letters, 1735-7.” (under submission to ELH)
• “Character, Cultural Agency, and Abolition: Ignatius Sancho’s Published Letters.” Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 31.2 (2008): 259-73.
• “Ramsay, Fergusson, Thomson, Davidson, and Urban Poetry.” The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature, Vol. Two: Enlightenment, Britain and Empire (1707-1918). Gen. ed. Ian Brown. Ed. Thomas Owen Clancy, Susan Manning, and Murray G. Pittock. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2006. 80-89.

Selected Presentations

• “Mothers and Reformers: Revising Female Character in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Letters Written during a Short Residence,” UCLA Eighteenth Century and Romantic Working Group, Los Angeles, CA (June 2008)
• “Editing Letters, Editing Character: Anna Barbauld’s Correspondence of Samuel Richardson,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Meeting, Portland, OR (March 2008)
• “A Life in Transit: Travel, Maternity, and the Progress of Civilisation in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Letters Written during a Short Residence,” International Conference on Romanticism 2007: Romantic Objects, Baltimore, MD (October 2007)
• “Characters, Cultural Agency, and Abolition: Ignatius Sancho’s Published Letters,” British Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies Meeting, Oxford, UK (January 2007)
• “‘An act of necessity’: Pope, Curll, and the Publication of Private Letters,” American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies Meeting, Las Vegas, NV (April 2005)
• “How Clothing ‘Makes mony kail-worms butter-flies’: Social Identity and Consumer Culture in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh,” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Conference, Newport Beach, CA (October 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 Meeting, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA (May 2003)

Academic Service

• Convened “UCSB Eighteenth Century Reading Group,” University of California, Santa Barbara (Fall, Winter & Spring 2008)
• Conceived and convened “Early Modern Studies Work-in-Progress Series,” University of California, Santa Barbara (Winter & Spring 2008)
• Conceived and chaired panel, “The ‘Character’ of the Long Eighteenth Century,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Meeting, Portland, OR (March 2008)
• Conference committee chair, Science & Technology, 1500-1800, University of California, Santa Barbara (March 2008)
• Conference committee member, Memory: 1500-1800, University of California, Santa Barbara (February 2005)
• Respondent to guest speakers Peter Stallybrass and Jayne Lewis, Memory: 1500-1800 Colloquium, University of California, Santa Barbara (November 2004)

Awards and Fellowships

CLTC Travel Grant, Consortium for Literature, Theory and Culture, UCSB, Winter 2008
Early Modern Center Graduate Fellow, Early Modern Center, English Department, UCSB, 2007-8
Graduate Student Travel Grant, Academic Senate, UCSB, Fall 2007
Humanities/Social Sciences Research Grant, UCSB, Winter 2007
Graduate Research Mentorship Program Fellowship, UCSB, 2006-7
ASECS-Clark Fellowship, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles, Summer 2005
English Department Fellowship, UCSB, 2002-3
Yvonne Gartrell Memorial Scholarship, UCSB, 2002-3

Professional Affiliations

Languages

Teaching Experience

• Instructor (with full course responsibilities), UC Santa Barbara:
• Writing 2: Introduction to Academic Writing (Winter 2006)
• Writing 2: Introduction to Academic Writing (Fall 2005)
• English 103B: British Literature from 1789 to 1900 (Summer 2005)
• English 10: Introduction to Literary Studies – Text and the City: British Urban Literature, 1500-1900 (Spring 2005)
• English 10: Introduction to Literary Studies – Memory: 1500-1800 (Winter 2005)
• English 101: English Literature from the Medieval Period to 1650 (Summer 2004)
• Teaching Assistant, UC Santa Barbara:
• English 102: Early Modern British and American Literature, 1650-1789 (Fall 2004)
• English 150: Anglo-Irish Literature (Spring 2004)
• English 102: Early Modern British and American Literature, 1650-1789 (Winter 2004)
• English 101: English Literature from the Medieval Period to 1650 (Fall 2003)