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Sharon Ruston
Prof Sharon Ruston
Key Memberships
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Member of School: School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences
From October 2011 to present.
Full Member of Research Centre: Centre for English Literature & Language
From January 2010 to present.
Profile Summary
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Key Qualifications
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1999
PhD 'P. B. Shelley and Science of Life' (from University of Liverpool).
Key Projects
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2010
Feb
The Collected Letters of Sir Humphry Davy and his Circle.
British Academy, £7,390.00.
Principal Investigator: S Ruston (100%).
2010
Jan
The Collected Letters of Humphry Davy and his Circle
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC), £1,000.00.
Principal Investigator: S Ruston (100%).
2009
Oct
The Collected Letters of Humphry Davy and his Circle
British Society for the History of Science, £500.00.
Principal Investigator: S Ruston (100%).
2009
Jul
Conference: Thomas de Quincey, Manchester and Medicine, 1785 - 1859
British Association for Romantic Studies, £250.00.
Principal Investigator: S Ruston (100%).
2009
Jun
Theories and Methods: Literature, Science and Medicine
AHRC, £48,131.00.
Investigator: S Ruston (100%).
Key Publications
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Authored Books
2009
Apr
Ruston, S 2009, Shelley and Vitality, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK.
2007
Mar
Ruston, S 2007, Romanticism, Continuum, London, UK.
Refereed Journal Articles
2008
Aug
Ruston, S 2008, ''Natural Rights and Natural History in Anna Barbauld and Mary Wollstonecraft'', Essays and Studies, 61(1), pp.53-71.
2007
Jul
Ruston, S 2007, ''Shelley's Links to the Midlands' Enlightenment: Adam Walker and James Keir'', British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 30(2), pp.227-242.
2005
Jul
Ruston, S 2005, ''Vegetarianism and Vitality in the Work of Thomas Forster, William Lawrence and P. B. Shelley'', Keats-Shelley Journal, 54(1), pp.113-132.
2005
May
Ruston, S 2005, ''Resurrecting Frankenstein'', Keats-Shelley Review, 19(1), pp.97-116.
2005
Feb
Ruston, S 2005, ''"Natural enemies in science, as well as in politics": Romanticism and scientific conflict'', Romanticism, 11(1), pp.70-83.
2003
Jan
Ruston, S 2003, ''One of the "Modern Sceptics": Reappraising Shelley's Medical Education'', Romanticism, 9(1), pp.1-19.
Book Sections
2010
Jan
Ruston, S 2010 ''Teaching Gender and Sexuality'', in: Teaching Romanticism, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK, pp.62-74.
2009
Jan
Ruston, S 2009 ''Authority and Imposture: William Godwin and the Animal Magnetists'', in: Liberating Medicine, Pickering and Chatto, London, UK, pp.153-164.
Edited Books
2010
Jan
Ruston, S & Higgins, D 2010, 'Teaching Romanticism', #Palgrave Macmillan#Basingstoke#UK.
2008
Sep
Ruston, S (ed.) 2008, 'Literature and Science', Boydell and Brewer, London, UK.
Guest Editorships of Journals
2011
Oct
Ruston, S 2011, 'Special Edition of Romanticism: Thomas de Quincey', Romanticism, 17(3).
Key Presence
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Conference Organisation
2008
Mar
British Society for Literature and Science (Keele University, United Kingdom, March 2008).
External Examiner Duties
2009
Jun
(University of Lancaster , United Kingdom, June 2009).
2009
Mar
(King's College, London, United Kingdom, March 2009).
Other Evidence of External Esteem
2009
Jul
Vice-President of the British Association for Romantic Studies (United Kingdom, July 2009).