Professor Simon Burrows
PROFESSOR IN HISTORY,
Arts (SoHCA)
Personal
Qualifications
- PGDip (Ed) University of Leeds (UK)
- PhD University of Oxford (UK)
- BA University of Oxford (UK)
UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- Arts (SoHCA)
Contact
| Email: | S.Burrows@uws.edu.au |
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| Extension: | 2391 |
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| Location: | C.G.28 Penrith (Kingswood) |
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Biography
Simon Burrows joined the staff at UWS at the start of January 2013, attracted by the chance to work with the planned Research Centre for Digital Humanities and the distinctiveness of the History and Political Thought programme. A historian of the European enlightenment, the eighteenth-century public sphere and the French revolution, he is known for his innovative studies of the press and French exile writers in Britain and above all as the instigator and principal investigator of the AHRC-funded 'French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe' (FBTEE) database project, which has won wide acclaim among historians, literary scholars, bibliographers and digital humanists. Simon is a graduate of Oxford University, who began his academic career at the University of Waikato, NZ, (1993-2000) before moving to the University of Leeds, UK, where he was successively Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Professor of Modern European History from 200-2012 and founding Director of the Centre for the Comparative History of Print (Centre CHoP). The author or editor of six books and more than 20 major chapters and articles, Simon is now working on a book arising from the French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe project. He is also a highly experienced and enthusiastic teacher, and has supervised around 130 Honours and Taught Masters theses, and 20 research higher degree students, as well as teaching and developing Honours / Postgraduate Methodologies teaching at UWS, Leeds and Waikato. He welcomes Research Students in any of his areas of interest, including those with a generic interest in print culture or the history of the printed news media, or those who would like to participate in the future development of the FBTEE project or similar initiatives.
This information has been contributed by Professor Burrows.
Interests
- Comparative and Transnational History
- Cultural Transfers
- Digital humanities
- French Literary History
- French, British and European History, 1700-1850
- History of Print Culture / Book History
- The Enlightenment
- The Press and Public Sphere
Publications
Books
- Burrows, S. (2010), 'A King's Ransom: the Life of Charles Theveneau de Morande, Blackmailer, Scandalmonger and Master-Spy', : Continuum 9780826419897.
- Burrows, S. (2006), 'Blackmail, Scandal, and Revolution : London's French Libellistes, 1758-92', : Manchester University Press 9780719065262.
Chapters in Books
- Burrows, S. (2013), 'French banned books in international perspective, 1770-1789', Experiencing the French Revolution, Voltaire Foundation 9780729410663.
- Burrows, S. (2011), 'Les traductions : editions anglaises des Vies privees francaises (1718-1838)', Dictionnaire des vies privees (1722-1842), Voltaire Foundation 9780729410090.
- Burrows, S. (2010), 'The Courier de l'Europe as an agent of cultural transfer (1776-1791)', Cultural Transfers: France and Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century, Voltaire Foundation 9780729409933.
- Burrows, S. (2010), 'Introduction', The Chevalier d'Eon and his Worlds: Gender, Espionage and Politics in the Eighteenth Century, Continuum 9780826422781.
- Burrows, S. (2010), 'The Chevalier d'Eon, media manipulation and the making of an eighteenth-century celebrity', The Chevalier d'Eon and his Worlds: Gender, Espionage and Politics in the Eighteenth Century, Continuum 9780826422781.
- Burrows, S. (2010), 'Introduction', Cultural Transfers: France and Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century, Voltaire Foundation 9780729409933.
- Burrows, S. (2008), 'Grub Street revolutionaries : marginal writers at the Enlightenment's periphery?', Peripheries of the Enlightenment, Voltaire Foundation 9780729409261.
- Burrows, S. (2007), 'The emigres and conspiracy in the French Revolution, 1789-1799', Conspiracy in the French Revolution, Manchester University Press 9780719074028.
- Burrows, S. (2006), 'Police and political pamphleteering in late ancien regime France : the testimony of J.-P. Lenoir, Lieutenant-General of Police of Paris', Print and Power in France and England, 1500-1800, Ashgate 9780754655916.
- Burrows, S. (2006), 'The war of words : French and British propaganda in the Napoleonic Era', Trafalgar in History: a Battle and its Afterlife, Palgrave 9780230009004.
- Burrows, S. (2006), 'Press and newspapers', Europe 1789 to 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire. Vol. 4, Charles Scribner's Sons 9780684313597.
- Burrows, S. (2006), 'The Black Legend of Napoleon', Resisting Napoleon: the British Response to the Threat of Invasion, 1798-1815 , Ashgate 9780754655916.
Journal Articles
- Burrows, S. (2012), 'The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe Project and the STN Database', Journal of Digital Humanities, .
- Burrows, S. (2012), 'The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe, 1769-1794 : author's response', Reviews in History, .
- Burrows, S. (2012), 'How Swiss was the Societe Typographique de Neuchatel? : a digital case study of French book trade networks', Journal of Digital Humanities, .
