Prof Brycchan Carey

Professor

Department: Humanities

I am a specialist in the literature and culture of the Atlantic world in the period 1650-1850. I have published extensively on the cultures of slavery and abolition, colonial America, and discourses of science and exploration in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, especially natural history and the early life sciences. I am currently in receipt of a British Academy/Wolfson Foundation Professorship to work on ‘The Parish Revolution: Parochial Origins of Global Conservationism’. This project explores to the contribution of the clergy to the development of natural history, and their lasting influence on the nature of the conservation movement. You can find out more about the project here.

I came to Northumbria in 2016, before which I had taught at Kingston University London for 15 years. I studied English and History at Goldsmiths’ College, University of London, and then took my MA and PhD in English at Queen Mary, University of London. To help develop my scientific understanding, I took a BSc in Natural Sciences with the Open University, which concluded with an ecological study of seaweed species on the Northumberland coast.

I am active within the scholarly community and have been Conference Organiser, Treasurer, International Officer, and, most recently, President of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. I have also been President of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (UK and Ireland) and President of the Literary London Society. I am a fellow and currently a council member of the Linnean Society of London. You can find more information about my research and career, as well as many free resources for studying literature, slavery, empire, and natural history on my website.

Campus Address

Northumbria University
Lipman Building, Room 017
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 8ST

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Key Publications

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Hannah-Rose Murray. Advocates of Freedom: African American Transatlantic Abolitionism in the British Isles., Carey, B. Mar 2023, In: American Historical Review
James Grainger’s The Sugar-Cane and Naturalists’ Georgic, Carey, B. 2023, Georgic Literature and the Environment, London, Routledge
Introduction: Enlightenment Identities, Carey, B., Warman, C. 1 Mar 2022, In: Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Preface, Carey, B., Warman, C. 1 Jun 2022, In: Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Abolishing Cruelty: The Concurrent Growth of Antislavery and Animal Welfare Sentiment in British and Colonial Literature, Carey, B. 1 Jun 2020, In: Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Birds in Eighteenth-Century Literature: Reason, Emotion, and Ornithology, 1700–1840, Carey, B., Greenfield, S., Milne, A. 22 Sep 2020
Slavery and the Novel of Sentiment, Carey, B. 21 Mar 2019, The Sentimental Novel in the Eighteenth Century, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
Literary Histories of the Early Anglophone Caribbean: Islands in the Stream, Aljoe, N., Carey, B., Krise, T. 14 Apr 2018
Anthony Benezet, Antislavery Rhetoric and the Age of Sensibility, Carey, B. 6 Jan 2017, In: Quaker Studies
Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative, Carey, B. Dec 2017

PGR Supervision

Jennifer Coleman Start Date: 01/10/2018 End Date: 14/06/2020
Jennifer Coleman Start Date: 01/10/2018 End Date: 24/10/2019

Qualifications

Environmental Studies/Science BSc (Hons) September 01 2014
English Literature PhD August 31 2000
English Literature MA September 01 1996
English September 01 1995

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