Batt, Dr Jennifer

Job Title: Post-doctoral Researcher (Digital Miscellanies Index)
College:
Period/Subject: 18th Century

Email address: jennifer.batt@ell.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests:

I work on eighteenth-century poetry, and I'm particularly interested in how verse circulated in manuscripts, pamphlets, miscellanies, songbooks, periodicals and newspapers.

I'm the Post-doctoral Researcher on the Digital Miscellanies Index. Led by Abigail Williams, this is a three-year, Leverhulme Trust funded project to create an online index to more than 1000 poetic miscellanies published between 1700-1780. When completed in 2013, the Index will be an essential guide to what was being read in the eighteenth century, allowing users to map the changing nature of literary taste, understand the traffic between commerce and culture, and gain an insight the complex relations between authors, publishers and readers.

I'm also interested in labouring-class writing, and I'm currently completing a monograph on the 'thresher poet' Stephen Duck. 

Teaching Areas:

I've taught FHS papers 2 (Shakespeare), 4 (1509-1642), 5 (1642-1740), 6 (1740-1832) and 7 (Austen), and I've lectured on Women Writers c.1650-1740.

Recent Publications:

'Eighteenth-Century Verse Miscellanies', Literature Compass (Forthcoming, 2012).

'A Collection of Poems and Charles Tooke', Notes and Queries N.S 58.3 (2011) 394-99

' "It ought not to be lost to the world": the Transmission and Consumption of Eighteenth-Century Lyric Verse', Review of English Studies 62 (255) (2011)  414-32  [Winner of the Review of English Studies Essay Prize for 2010]

Review of Bridget Keegan, 'British Labouring-Class Nature Poetry, 1730-1837', The Byron Journal 38.1 (2010) 94-6.

'From the Field to the Coffeehouse: Changing Representations of Stephen Duck', Criticism 47.4 (2005) 451-70.

Other Information:

Digital Miscellanies Index website and blog