John T. Gilmore - Curriculum Vitae#
Appointments held:
- 2018 - present, Reader, University of Warwick, Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies
- Associate Professor, 2009 - 2018, University of Warwick, Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies (until 2001 Centre for British and Comparative Cultural Studies)
- Associate Professor, 2006 - 2009
- Lecturer, 1996 - 2006, Caribbean Week newspaper, Barbados (1992 - 1996)
- Managing Editor, HCA Advertising (Hoyos, Carter & Atkinson Ltd.), Barbados (1990 - 1992)
- Copywriter/Producer, National Cultural Foundation, Barbados (1986 - 1990)
- Cultural Officer for Literary Arts, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados (1986 - 1987)
- Part-time tutor in History, Queen’s College, Barbados (1986 - 1987)
- Part-time history teacher, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados (1982 - 1986)
- Visiting Lecturer/Assistant Lecturer, Department of History
Education/Qualifications:
- Ph.D., 1985 (Thesis title: “Episcopacy, Emancipation and Evangelization: Aspects of the History of the Church of England in the British West Indies”), Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge
- M.A., 1981
- B.A., 1977 (History)
Membership of learned or professional societies:
- British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
- British Comparative Literature Association
- Royal Asiatic Society
- Early Caribbean Society
Honours and awards:
- 2016 Research Project Grant (£249, 968 over 36 months), The Leverhulme Trust, for “Oriental poetry, Latin scholarship and the European Enlightenment: The case of William Jones”
- 2001 British Academy Small Research Grant for archival research in Jamaica
- 1982 Prince Consort Prize and Seeley Medal, University of Cambridge
- 1980 Lightfoot Scholarship in Ecclesiastical History, University of Cambridge.
Keywords:
Eighteenth-century British literature; Caribbean literature; Neo-Latin poetry; History of Translation.
