Kathleen Wilson
- Professor (Ph.D., Yale University, 1985, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, UK, and John Simon Memorial Guggenheim Foundation Fellow for 2001-02)
- Research Interests
- Kathleen Wilson is Professor of History at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She publishes on the themes of British culture and empire, including The Sense of the People: Politics, Culture and Imperialism in England, 1715-1785 (1995), which won prizes from the Royal Historical Society and the North American Conference on British Studies; The Island Race: Englishness Empire and Gender in the Eighteenth Century (2003); and (as editor) A New Imperial History: Culture, Identity and Modernity in Britain and the Empire 1660-1840 (2004). She is currently at work finishing a book entitled The Colonial Stage: Theater, Culture and Modernity in the English Provinces, 1720-1820 that explores the politics of theatrical and social performance and colonial rule in sites that range across the Atlantic and Pacific worlds and is beginning another study entitled Rethinking the Colonial State: Gender and Governmentality in the Long Eighteenth Century. Her next project will focus on revolution and empire in the 1790s. She has been awarded fellowships from the John Simon Memorial Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies, among others. She lives in New York City with her husband, daughter and poodle.
- Publications
- "Rowe's Fair Penitent as Global History: or, A Diversionary Voyage to New South Wales," Eighteenth Century Studies, 41 (2) (2008), 231-251.
"Nelson's Women: Female Masculinity and Body Politics in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars," European History Quarterly, 37 (4), 2007, 562-581.
"Old Imperialisms and new imperial histories: rethinking the history of the present,' Radical History Review, 95 (Spring 2006), pp, 211-34.
- E-Mail
- kawilson@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
- Office
- SBS N-331
- Phone
- 631-632-7504
- Fax
- 631-632-7367