Intellectual history of the British world from the 17th century onwards; history of race, ethnicity and nationhood; constitutional theory; Scottish history
Early modern literature in its historical and intellectual contexts, especially poetry and drama; Edmund Spenser's engagement with Gaelic Ireland, the dynamics of Tudor and Jacobean patronage, the aesthetics of Renaissance tragedy.
World history, especially since 1750: sciences and environments; race and racisms; the Indian and Pacific Oceans; Sri Lanka and South and Southeast Asia; material cultures; cities; human-animal relations; empires
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