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Research interests
Broadly speaking, my research interests lie in eighteenth-century literature, book history and reception history, and digital humanities. I'm particularly interested in the publication and reception history of eighteenth-century poetry, and in exploring how poetic culture was constructed across a range of media, including newspapers, magazines, miscellanies and pamphlets. Before coming to Bristol, I was project manager of the Digital Miscellanies Index at the University of Oxford; this project created a freely available online database of the verse printed in thousands of eighteenth-century miscellanies. My current research explores the poetry that was published in eighteenth-century newspapers and magazines; this work has included collaborations with British Library Labs and with the Jean Golding Institute at the University of Bristol.
My work is interested in investigating how eighteenth-century poetic culture reached across social and geographical boundaries, and especially in tracing how it stretched beyond metropolitan or polite limits to include men and women in the provinces and of all social classes. I have a long standing interest in labouring-class writing, and I’ve written and published on severable labouring class poets, including Northamptonshire’s Mary Leapor, and the 'thresher poet' Stephen Duck. (You can see me talk about Duck here, and Leapor here.). My monograph, Class, Patronage and Poetry in Hanoverian England, was published in 2020.
I am also editing 'Lycidus' for the Cambridge University Press edition of the Works of Aphra Behn.
I am co-founder of the Centre for Material Texts. The Centre was established in 2017 in order to bring together scholars from across the Faculty of Arts, as well as librarians and creative professionals, in the exploration of material texts from the ancient world to the digital age. If you are interested in the Centre’s work, do check out our blog, twitter, or get in touch.
Research Supervision
I would welcome applications relating to the long eighteenth century, and particularly invite those relating to poetry, women’s writing, labouring-class writing, book history, or digital humanities.
Teaching
Undergraduate units I teach on include:
Literature 1550-1740
Literature 1740-1900
Eighteenth-Century Women’s Writing
Writing the Working Classes
Structured keywords and research groupings
- Centre for Material Texts
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Projects
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How to open a print shop
Batt, J., Mctague, J. J. & Daniels, R. J.
19/04/21 → 30/07/21
Project: Research
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Visualising the poetic cultures of eighteenth-century periodicals
1/08/19 → 31/01/20
Project: Research
Research output
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Class, Patronage, and Poetry in Hanoverian England: Stephen Duck, The Famous Threshing Poet
Batt, J., 18 Jun 2020, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 240 p.Research output: Book/Report › Authored book
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Jennifer Keith and Claudia Thomas Kairoff (eds). The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea: Volume 1, Early Manuscript Books
Batt, J., 13 Jun 2020, In: Review of English Studies.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review (Academic Journal)
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Digital Miscellanies Index
Batt, J., Jun 2018, Teaching Laboring-Class British Literature of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries . Christmas, W. J. & Binfield, K. (eds.). Modern Language Association, p. 299-301 (Options for Teaching; vol. 43).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Other chapter contribution
Prizes
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British Library Labs Competition
Batt, Jennifer (Recipient), 2016
Prize: Prizes, Medals, Awards and Grants
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Review of English Studies Essay Prize
Batt, Jennifer (Recipient), 2010
Prize: Prizes, Medals, Awards and Grants
Activities
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British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 47th Annual Conference
Jennifer Batt (Speaker)
4 Jan 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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Cardiff Romanticism and Eighteenth Century Seminar
Jennifer Batt (Invited speaker)
7 Dec 2017Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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British Library Labs Symposium
Jennifer Batt (Invited speaker)
30 Oct 2017Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference