Dr Rachel Stenner

Rachel is the founder and director of the Print Culture, Agency, Regional Identity Network.

Rachel researches literature and culture from the late medieval period to the middle of the eighteenth- century; within that, her main area is mid-Tudor literature. Rachel is particularly interested in authors who worked in the print trade, and the ways that proximity to the printing press shaped their writings and authorship.  

Rachel is a member of the Society for Renaissance Studies, an associate member of the Centre for Printing History and Culture, and on the Publications Committee of the Printing Historical Society.

Email: r.j.stenner@sussex.ac.uk

Dr Kaley Kramer

Kaley’s research focuses on women’s writing in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, particularly questions of property, authorship, legal discourse, and historiography. Kaley is currently exploring the development of the ‘Female Gothic’ in British literature. She is also interested in Canadian literature, especially late eighteenth-century representations of ‘Canada’ in Britain, and contemporary adaptations of eighteenth-century Gothic literature. 

Kaley has a general interest in eighteenth-century literature, particularly in historiography; legal discourse and property; the Gothic; national identity and nation-building; women’s writing; and configurations of the ‘North’.

Twitter: @DrKaleyKramer

Email: K.A.Kramer@shu.ac.uk

Dr Adam James Smith

Adam works on eighteenth-century political literature and print culture. His doctoral research examined a selection of early eighteenth-century periodicals which were funded by political parties but did not signal their partisan allegiance. The PhD looked particularly at the partisan writing of Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.

Subsequently, Adam has developed an interest in political print culture outside of eighteenth-century London. He has worked extensively of radical newspaper networks across Sheffield and York, with a specific interest in the life and writing of the editor, poet, hymn-writer and activist, James Montgomery.

Generally, Adam is interested in the relationships between politics, news and literature and the ways in which partisan identity is cultivated and articulated.

Twitter: @elementaladam

Email: a.smith3@yorksj.ac.uk