Queen Mary Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies

 John T. Gilmore (Warwick): Sable and other Venuses: Sex, Slavery and the Poetic Imagination in the Caribbean and Britain During the Eighteenth Century. 

The Centre was founded in 2008 as an umbrella organisation for all researchers and students in eighteenth-century studies at Queen Mary, University of London. The centre has members in a wide range of humanities disciplines (including Comparative Literature, English & Drama, History, Geography), and provides intellectual support for colleagues through research-related events. 

There is a vibrant cohort of PhD students supervised in the centre who run an eighteenth-century reading group. Members welcome approaches from potential PhD students via e-mail, and you can visit our alumni page to hear from former postgraduates. 

We organise a regular research seminar. A list of previous seminars and conferences can be found in our archive.

We also sponsor an early-career visiting fellowship in collaboration with the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. 

For forthcoming eighteenth-century studies conferences and seminars in the UK see our news and events page.