Dr Michael Rowland

Post:	Assistant Education Manager (Media, Arts and Humanities (Professional Services))
Location:	ARTS B B133
Email:	M.Rowland@sussex.ac.uk
Telephone numbers
Internal:	3261
UK:	01273 873261
International:	+44 1273 873261

What is this?

Biography

I studied for a BA in English & American Literature at the University of Kent, graduating with a first in 2006. I then completed a PGCE and taught English and Media Studies at GCSE and A level in a Kent secondary school between 2007-2011. After this, I studied for a Masters in Literature & Culture 1700-1900 at the University of Sussex. I completed my PhD in 2016, and was supervised by Catherine Packham. 

Role

Doctoral Researcher

Qualifications

PhD English (AHRC funded, University of Sussex, from 2012-2016)

MA Literature & Culture 1700-1900 (University of Sussex, 2011-2012)

PGCE Secondary English with Drama and Media (Canterbury Christ Church University, 2006-2007)

BA English & American Literature (University of Kent, 2003-2006)

Activities

Guest Speaker:

Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative. 'As Waves of One Sea: Treasures from the Rosey Pool Library', Being Human Festival, University of Sussex, 21st November 2017.

'Hell yes, I'm Tough Enough: Man Trouble and Contemporary British Politics', Guest Lecture, BA Politics module: 'Gender, Politics and the State', University of Westminster, 16th February 2016. 

Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative, Guest Lecture, BA module: 'Novelty, Enlightenment, Emancipation: Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture', University of Kent, 8th December 2015. 

Conferences:

'Inheriting Identity: Fathers and Sons in Lord Chesterfield’s Letters and James Boswell’s London Journal' at International Congress on the Enlightenment, University of Edinburgh, 15th-19th July 2019.

‘Touching Moments and Moments of Touch: Affect and Control in Robinson Crusoe.’ at BSECS (British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) Early Career conference, Universite d'Aix-Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, France, 3rd-4th September 2018. 

'Writing the Man of Politeness: The Hidden Importance of Shame in Early Eighteenth Century British Masculinity' at Gendered Emotions in History, University of Sheffield, 29th June 2018.

'To call me after his name': Olaudah Equiano and the politics of becoming' at BSECS (British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) annual conference, St Hugh's College, University of Oxford, 6th-8th January 2015. 

'"That war of duties": Henry Mackenzie and the shame of writing novels' at Shame and the Act of Writing symposium, University of Warwick, 19th September 2014. 

'"His Pretty Self": Disgust and effeminate masculinity in early eighteenth-century British culture' at Fear and Loathing: Phobia in Literature and Culture conference, University of Kent, 9th-10th May 2014.

'"This great inmate": Shame and the impartial spectator in Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments' Eighteenth- & Nineteenth-Century Research Seminar, University of Sussex, 2nd April 2014. 

'Shameful Corporeality: Fops and the conspicuous male body' at Materiality & Corporeality: the Body in Popular Fiction and Visual Culture postgraduate conference, University of Portsmouth, 6th June 2013.

Other:

I am a member of the Wellcome Trust-funded research network, 'Pathologies of Solitude, 18th-21st Century'. https://solitudes.qmul.ac.uk/ 

I was formerly on the editorial board of Excursions, an interdisciplinary open-access journal run by postgraduates at the University of Sussex.

I was also on the organising committee for a conference entitled 'Sexual Dissidence Now', an event focused celebrating 25 years since the launch of the pioneering MA in Sexual Dissidence at Sussex. This took place at the University of Sussex in May 2016.