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Prof Martin Conboy - Director of Centre
Professor Conboy has published widely on popular journalism, newspaper language and tabloid culture, covering the period from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries.
- The Press and Popular Culture (Sage, 2002)
- Journalism: A Critical History (Sage, 2004)
- Tabloid Britain (Routledge, 2006)
Dr Adrian Bingham - Director of Centre
Dr Bingham has used popular newspapers to explore the social and cultural history of twentieth century Britain, focusing in particular on the themes of gender and sexuality.
- Gender, Modernity, and the Popular Press in Inter-War Britain (OUP, 2004)
- Family Newspapers? Sex, Private Life, and the British Popular Press 1918-78 (OUP, 2009)
Dr Jane Hodson
Dr Hodson is interested in the interface of language and literature, and particularly the way in which style is contested at an ideological level. She has written about the politics of language and style in the Romantic Period.
- Language and Revolution in Burke, Wollstonecraft, Paine, and Godwin (Ashgate, 2007)
- 'Women write the rights of women: the sexual politics of the personal pronoun in the 1790s' Language and Literature 16:3 (2007) 281-304.
Dr Hamish Mathison
Dr Mathison is a specialist in eighteenth century literature, and has published on newspapers and popular print.
- ‘Tropes of Promotion and Well-Being: Advertisement and the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Periodical Press’ in The News, 1600-1800: New Approaches to Newspaper History in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, ed. J. Raymond (Frank Cass, 1999) pp. 206-225.
- ‘Robert Hepburn and the Edinburgh Tatler: a study in an early British periodical’ in Media History (vol 11, n. 1/2, 2005)
Dr Marcus Nevitt
Dr Nevitt is a specialist in seventeenth-century literature. He has written on early modern women´s writing and on Ben Jonson and news writing in the seventeenth century.
- ‘Ben Jonson and the Serial Publication of News’ in Joad Raymond (ed.) News Networks in Seventeenth-Century Britain and Europe (London and New York: Routledge, 2005), pp. 53-68. also published in a special double issue of Media History 11.1/2 (April 2005).
- Women and the Pamphlet Culture of Revolutionary England, 1640-1660 (Ashgate, 2006)
Dr John Steel
Dr Steel has interests in a range of journalism themes informed by historical contexts.
- “Press Censorship in Britain: Blurring the Boundaries of Censorship”, Journal for the Study of British Cultures, 15, (1), pp. 159-170. (2008)
- [in press] Journalism & Free Speech (Routledge, forthcoming)
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