Dr Kate Davies
Senior Lecturer in American Literature
- Email: kate.davies@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0)191 222 7599
Research Interests
Eighteenth and nineteenth-century women's writing; textile history and material culture; British and American literary and political cultures 1750-1850; the eighteenth-century mid-Atlantic (particularly Philadelphia); eighteenth-century letter writing and manuscript circulation; visual and literary representations of the American Revolutionary War.
Current Work
I'm currently at work on a book: "Where You Are Not: Women, Writing and the Sense of Place in Revolutionary Philadelphia." The book uses manuscripts, vernacular architecture, landscapes, textiles, and other material objects to explore Philadelphia women's political and cultural sense of place during the American revolutionary decades. I'm also producing a scholarly edition of Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson's 'Willing' Commonplace book (AHRC-funded research leave, 2008), and beginning work on a new interdisciplinary project: "Text Isle: The Literary Fabric of Modern Britain."
Selected Publications
- Kate Davies. Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren : The Revolutionary Atlantic and the Politics of Gender. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Kate Davies and Hariet Guest. THE WORKS OF CHARLOTTE SMITH, VOLUME 9 : Marchmont. In: Kate Davies and Harriet Guest, ed. The Works of Charlotte Smith 2006. London: Pickering & Chatto, 9, 466.
- Kate Davies. Revolutionary correspondence: reading Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren. Women's Writing 2006, 13(1), 73-97.
- Kate Davies. Pantomime, Connoisseurship, Consumption: Emma Hamilton and the Politics of Embodiment. In: CW3 Journal, issue 2 (2006). Sheffield Hallam University, 2004. Available at: http://www2.shu.ac.uk/corvey/CW3journal/issue%20two/davies.html.
- Kate Davies. "Reading Distance: A Letter from the Transatlantic Archive". Common-Place 2006, 7(1), http://www.common-place.org/vol-07/no-01/tales/.
- Kate Davies. In the Steps of Jane Gaugain. Twist Collective 2009, 3(Spring).
Postgraduate Supervision
I welcome applications from prospective research students interested in all aspects of the interdisciplinary study of the 1700-1850 period, and particularly the following areas: women's writing; gender studies; transatlantic studies; early American literature; political cultures (British and American); textiles and material culture.
Esteem Indicators
Winterthur Museum Fellow (2007-8)
American Philosophical Society Fellow (2005)
Library Company of Philadelphia/ Barra Foundation Fellow (2005)
Massachusetts Historical Society Fellow (2002)
Clark Library Fellow (2001)
Funding
White-Rose project grant "Languages of Abolition"(2001-2004)
F.R Leavis Award (2003)
Leverhulme Research Fellowship "Women, Letters, and the Atlantic World, 1760-1840" (2006-2007)
AHRC research leave (2008) "Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson's Commonplace Book"
Background
I lectured in Eighteenth-Century Literature at Sheffield and York before coming to Newcastle in 2007.
Qualifications
BA English and Related Literature (University of York)
MA Interdisciplinary Studies (University of York)
DPhil Eighteenth-Century Studies (University of York)