Dr Michael Rowland
| Post: | Assistant Education Manager (Media, Arts and Humanities (Professional Services)) |
| Location: | ARTS B B133 |
| Email: | M.Rowland@sussex.ac.uk |
Telephone numbers | |
| Internal: | 3261 |
| UK: | 01273 873261 |
| International: | +44 1273 873261 |
Biography
I studied for a BA in English & American Literature at the University of Kent, graduating with a first in 2006. I then completed a PGCE and taught English and Media Studies at GCSE and A level in a Kent secondary school between 2007-2011. After this, I studied for a Masters in Literature & Culture 1700-1900 at the Â鶹´«Ã½ÉçÇøÈë¿Ú. I completed my PhD in 2016, and was supervised by .
Role
Doctoral Researcher
Qualifications
PhD English (AHRC funded, Â鶹´«Ã½ÉçÇøÈë¿Ú, from 2012-2016)
MA Literature & Culture 1700-1900 (Â鶹´«Ã½ÉçÇøÈë¿Ú, 2011-2012)
PGCE Secondary English with Drama and Media (Canterbury Christ Church University, 2006-2007)
BA English & American Literature (University of Kent, 2003-2006)
Activities
Guest Speaker:
Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative. 'As Waves of One Sea: Treasures from the Rosey Pool Library', Being Human Festival, Â鶹´«Ã½ÉçÇøÈë¿Ú, 21st November 2017.
'Hell yes, I'm Tough Enough: Man Trouble and Contemporary British Politics', Guest Lecture, BA Politics module: 'Gender, Politics and the State', University of Westminster, 16th February 2016.
Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative, Guest Lecture, BA module: 'Novelty, Enlightenment, Emancipation: Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture', University of Kent, 8th December 2015.
Conferences:
'Inheriting Identity: Fathers and Sons in Lord Chesterfield’s Letters and James Boswell’s London Journal' at International Congress on the Enlightenment, University of Edinburgh, 15th-19th July 2019.
‘Touching Moments and Moments of Touch: Affect and Control in Robinson Crusoe.’ at BSECS (British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) Early Career conference, Universite d'Aix-Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, France, 3rd-4th September 2018.
'Writing the Man of Politeness: The Hidden Importance of Shame in Early Eighteenth Century British Masculinity' at Gendered Emotions in History, University of Sheffield, 29th June 2018.
'To call me after his name': Olaudah Equiano and the politics of becoming' at BSECS (British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) annual conference, St Hugh's College, University of Oxford, 6th-8th January 2015.
'"That war of duties": Henry Mackenzie and the shame of writing novels' at Shame and the Act of Writing symposium, University of Warwick, 19th September 2014.
'"His Pretty Self": Disgust and effeminate masculinity in early eighteenth-century British culture' at Fear and Loathing: Phobia in Literature and Culture conference, University of Kent, 9th-10th May 2014.
'"This great inmate": Shame and the impartial spectator in Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments' Eighteenth- & Nineteenth-Century Research Seminar, Â鶹´«Ã½ÉçÇøÈë¿Ú, 2nd April 2014.
'Shameful Corporeality: Fops and the conspicuous male body' at Materiality & Corporeality: the Body in Popular Fiction and Visual Culture postgraduate conference, University of Portsmouth, 6th June 2013.
Other:
I am a member of the Wellcome Trust-funded research network, 'Pathologies of Solitude, 18th-21st Century'.
I was formerly on the editorial board of Excursions, an interdisciplinary open-access journal run by postgraduates at the Â鶹´«Ã½ÉçÇøÈë¿Ú.
I was also on the organising committee for a conference entitled 'Sexual Dissidence Now', an event focused celebrating 25 years since the launch of the pioneering MA in Sexual Dissidence at Sussex. This took place at the Â鶹´«Ã½ÉçÇøÈë¿Ú in May 2016.