Dr Stephen Clucas, University of London Research Fellow (January to April 2008)
Dr Stephen Clucas, reader in Early-Modern Intellectual History at the School of Enlgish and Humanities, Birkbeck College, joined the School for 4 months from January until April 2008.
Dr Clucas has been teaching at Birkbeck since 1991, and currently teaches on five degree programmes: BA Humanities, BA English, MA Renaissance Studies, MA Cultural and Critical Studies and MA History of Ideas. Courses he taught include: Magic, Science and Religion in the Renaissance; Renaissance philosophies and Renaissance literature; Renaissance Textualities; Aesthetics and Cultural Theory; Reading Walter Benjamin; Atheology and Unreason; The Cultural Production of Space; The Photographic and The Aphoristic.
He is the Editor (together with Stephen Gaukroger - Former School Visiting Professorial Fellow 04-05) of the journal Intellectual History Review and a member of the Council of the International Society for Intellectual History. He has been Vice-Chairman of the Thomas Harriot Seminar (devoted to the life and times of the Elizabethan scientist and mathematician Thomas Harriot) since 1990 and the organizer (together with Peter J. Forshaw) of the EMPHASIS seminar, held in the School of Advanced Study, University of London, since 2003. He also serves on the Councils of the Society of the History of Alchemy and Chemistry and the Society for Renaissance Studies.
The range of Dr Clucas' interests is both wide and well-matched by the profundity of his knowledge. He is a literary scholar, a historian of science and a historian of philosophy, as well as an early-modern social and cultural hitorian. His numerous articles range from the neo-platonic philosophies of Marsilio Ficino and Giordano Bruno to the corpuscular theories of Thomas Harriot and Francis Bacon, to the literary traditions of Fulke Greville and Margaret Cavendish. His extensive writings on English natural philosophy in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is among the most important in the field and is routinely cited. His work on the volume De corpore has been the main focus of his tenure at the School.
View Dr Clucas fellowship report [Word].
