Gillian Russell

Gillian Russell is Professor of English at the University of York. A Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, she is internationally renowned for her innovative interdisciplinary research that began with The Theatres of War: Performance, Culture and Society, 1793-1815 (1995). She has pioneered field-changing new directions in scholarship - on war and theatre and on the study of sociability. Her books include Romantic Sociability: Social Networks and Literary Culture 1770-1840 ...See more

Gillian Russell is Professor of English at the University of York. A Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, she is internationally renowned for her innovative interdisciplinary research that began with The Theatres of War: Performance, Culture and Society, 1793-1815 (1995). She has pioneered field-changing new directions in scholarship - on war and theatre and on the study of sociability. Her books include Romantic Sociability: Social Networks and Literary Culture 1770-1840 (Cambridge, 2002), co-edited with Clara Tuite, Women, Sociability and Theatre in Georgian London (Cambridge, 2007), and Tracing War in British Enlightenment and Romantic Culture, co-edited with Neil Ramsey (2015). See less