Dr Judith Hawley, University of London Research Fellow (May to August 2007)
Dr (now Professor) Judith Hawley joined the Department of English at Royal Holloway in 1995. Dr Hawley was awarded the University of London Research Fellowship at the School of Advanced Study for 4 months, between May and August 2007.
She can be contacted at j.hawley@rhul.ac.uk.
Dr Hawley's main research interest is 18th-century studies. Che collaborated with Professor John Mullan on the Chadwyck-Healey electronic database 18th-Century Fiction. Dr Hawley is an intellectual historian as well as a literary critic from her eary research on Sterne to her editing of the rich and unusual Literature and Science volumes for Pickering & Chatto, she has been drawn to the learned wit and the parodies of leading that were distinctive of the 18th century. Dr Hawley was the general editor of the highly acclaimed Pickering and Chatto collection on 18th-century literature and science published in 2003. Dr Hawley has further published important essays on the learned tradition in satire, on Tristram Shandy, and on the encyclopaedic principle in the novel. She has always been keen to handle the relationship between literature and ideas which has led us to the project of writing on the Scriblerus Club.
Details on her research interests, publications and her biography are available on the RH page: http://www.rhul.ac.uk/English/about-us/Staff/Hawley/About-us-Hawley1.html
Dr Hawley's project during her tenure comprised a group biography Schoblerian group of Augustan satirists, some say the most productive and influential literary club in history. The project was to bring into focus the Scriblerus Club and its intellectual contexts to a wider audience, and posed some insightful and resonant questions about the intersections of compositional practice and sociability.
View Dr Hawley fellowship report.
