Clare Brant#
| Membership Number: | 6166 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Affiliated section(s): | FILM, MEDIA & VISUAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/professor-clare-brant |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009 Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Department of English, King’s College London
- 2010 Co-Director, Centre for Life-Writing Research, King’s College London
- 2009 Project Director, Strandlines: Lives on the Strand past, present and creative https://www.strandlines.london/
- 1991 - 2009 Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in English, Department of English, King’s College London
- 1988 - 1991 Fellow and Tutor in English, Jesus College Cambridge
- 1985 - 1988 Rachel Trickett Junior Research Fellow, St Hugh’s College Oxford
- 1983 - 1985 Sir Christopher Cox Junior Fellow, New College Oxford
Fields of Scholarship
- Poetry
- Blue humanities
- Eighteenth-century literature and culture
- Life writing
- Visual culture
Honours and Awards
- 2008 winner of ESSE Book Award (European Society for the Study of English) for Eighteenth-Century Letters and British Culture (Palgrave Macmillan 2006; Choice Academic Title for 2006)
- 2011 British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Teaching Award on behalf of the 18thC Studies MA taught with the British Museum, as co-creator and convenor
- 2014 major ERC award, as Co-I: EGO MEDIA (2014-2019, € 2 million) to investigate the impact of digital and social media on the practices and experiences of life writing and related modes of ego narrative. 4 PhDs, 2 postdocs; many outputs, including a lecture series, a major exhibition on diaries and a digital book, forthcoming
