Dr Neil Ramsey

• Biography
• Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise
• Awards / Honours
• Grants / Current Projects
• Selected Publications
• Memberships / Engagement
• Contact

Biography

Dr Neil Ramsey is a Research Lecturer in English Literature and an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow from 2010-2013. His research focuses on literary and culture responses to warfare during the eighteenth century and Romantic eras. He is currently working on the ARC-Funded project “War, Literary Culture and Masculinity in Romantic Period Britain, 1750-1850”, which examines the formative role played by Romantic period military and naval war writing in the development of a modern culture of war. Before coming to the University of Western Sydney, he was a Lecturer in English at the Australian National University.

Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise

Romantic studies; Eighteenth-century literary culture; war literature; life writing; travel writing

Awards / Honours 

Stephen Copley Postgraduate Research Award, British Association for Romantic Studies, 2007.

Australian Postgraduate Award, The Australian National University, 2003-07.

Grants / Current Projects

Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship, Australian Research Council Discovery Project, ‘War, Literary Culture and Masculinity in Romantic Period Britain, 1750-1850’, 2010-13.

Conference Travel Grant, College of Arts and Social Sciences, The Australian National University, 2009.

Australian Bicentennial Fellowship, the Menzies Centre, King’s College London, 2009. Funded Visiting Fellowship, The University of Nottingham, UK, November 2009-January 2010.

Vice-Chancellor’s Travel Grant, The Australian National University, 2007. Funded Visiting Fellowship, The University of Warwick, UK, July-August 2007.

Conference Travel Grant, Humanities Research Centre, The Australian National University, 2007.

Faculty of Arts Fieldwork Grant, College of Arts and Social Sciences, The Australian National University, 2004.

Selected Publications

Books:

The Military Memoir and Romantic Literary Culture, 1780-1835 (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011).

Book Chapters:

Forthcoming: ‘“A Real English Soldier”: Suffering, Manliness and Class in the Mid Nineteenth-Century Soldiers’ Tale’. In Men of Arms: Soldiering in Britain and Ireland, 1750-1850. Eds C. Kennedy and M. McCormack. (Palgrave Macmillan, c.2012).

 ‘“A Question of Literature”: The Romantic Writer and Modern Wars of Empire’. In Stories of Empire: Narratives and Discursive Strategies for the Legitimation of an Imperial World Order. Eds C. Knellwolf and M. Rubik. (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2009).

Journal Articles:

‘Horrid Scenes and Marvellous Sights: The Citizen-Soldier and Sir Robert Ker Porter’s Spectacle of War’. Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net, 46 (May 2007).

‘“Making My Self a Soldier”: The Role of Soldiering in the Autobiographical Work of John Clare’. Romanticism, 13.2 (2007): pp.177-188.

‘Romanticism and War’. Literature Compass, 3.2 (2006): pp.117-26.

Memberships / Engagement

Executive Member, British Association for Romantic Studies.

Executive Member, Romantic Studies Association of Australasia.

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