Christine Gerrard

Professor Gerrard's main areas of research are eighteenth-century political literature, and women's writing of the long eighteenth century. She is currently completing an edition of Jonathan Swift, The History of the Four Last Years of  the Queen and related writings from the Queen Anne period for CUP, and an article on Swift and Robert Walpole. Her most recently published work is on eighteenth-century women and memory, with a particular focus on Irish women's writing, especially the circle around Swift. This has included articles such as 'What the Women of Dublin did with John Locke', and 'Laetitia Pilkington and the Mnemonic Self'.  Professor Gerrard is developing these ideas into a larger project on women, memory and commemoration, a project inspired by my keynote address on 'Memory and the Eighteenth-Century Female Poet' at the BAKEA conference on Memory in Anatolia, Turkey, at the end of 2017. 

Christine was well acquainted with TORCH before her arrival as Director, she has previously been part of a Knowledge Exchange Fellowship between Oxford University, English Heritage, the National Trust and TORCH - The Woodcutter or The Three Wishes. Read an article about it here in the National Trust Cultural Heritage Magazine.