Dr Chris Mounsey 

Lecturer 

Arts 

Email:

Chrismounsey01@googlemail.com 

Phone:

+44 (0) 1962 827372 

Address:

Publications

Research Projects
French Erotic Theatre of the Eighteenth Century

Blindness in Eighteenth-Century Culture

Literature, Sexuality and Theology

Books
Queer People: Negotiations and Expressions of Homosexuality 1700-1800. (Lewisburg: Associated University Presses, 2007)
ISBN: 0-8387-5667-6
Editor with Caroline Gonda. Contribution, Introduction and one essay.

Friendship and Same-Sex Love.
(Studies in English Literature SEL Volume 46 No. 3 Summer 2006)
ISSN: 0039-3657
Editor with Caroline Gonda. Contribution, one essay.

Eighteenth-Century British Erotica, 5 vols.,
(London: Pickering and Chatto, 2002)
ISBN: 1 85196 742 7
Editor with Rictor Norton of Volume 1: Pleasures, Comforts and Plagues of the early eighteenth century

One Step Ahead In Essay Writing and Dissertations for Undergraduates
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002)
ISBN: 0198605056
Monograph

Christopher Smart: Clown of God
(Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2001)
ISBN: 0-8387-5483-X
Monograph

Presenting Gender: Changing Sex in Early Modern Culture
(Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2001)
ISBN: 0-8387-5477-5
Editor. Contribution, Introduction and one essay.

Essays in Books
Gender, Ethnicity, Sexuality, in Continuum Studies in British Literature: The Eighteenth Century. Ed. Bridget Keegan and Gary Day. (Continuum Publishing, 2008)
ISBN: 9780826485649

Anglican Jewish, Pagan: The Queen Anne Churches as Queer Spaces, in Jewish Christian Queer ed. Fred Roden (Ashgate, 2008)
ISBN: 978-0-7546-9142-6

Christopher Smart and the Architecture of the Mind. in Ritual, Routine, and Regime: Repetition in Early Modern British and European Cultures, ed. Lorna Clymer, (Toronto University Press, 2007)
ISBN: 9780802090300

Searching in the Dark, A history of Anglo-Irish homosexuality. in Love, sex, friendship and intimacy between men, 1550 - 1800, ed. Noreen Giffney and Michael O’Rourke (Palgrave, 2006)
ISBN: 9781403920447

Christopher Smart: Jubilate Agno, in Blackwell’s Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry ed. Christine Gerrard (Oxford: Blackwell’s, 2006)
ISBN: 9781405113168

Journal Articles
‘“… bring her naked from her Bed, that I may ravish her before the Dotard’s face, and then send his Soul to Hell”: Penelope Aubin, impious pietist, humourist or purveyor of juvenile fantasy?’
British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies,
Volume 26, Number 1, Spring 2003 pp.55-75.
ISSN: 0141-867X

‘Thomas Sheridan and the Second Smock-Alley Theatre Riot,’ in New Hibernia Review/ Iris Eireannach nua, Volume 4 No.3, (Fall, 2000) pp.65-77.
ISSN: 10923977
Publisher: University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota.

‘Edible Bulls and Drinkable Mice: Eighteenth Century Taxonomy and the Crisis of Eden.’ in Worldviews: Environment, Culture, Religion. Vol.4 No.II (2000) pp.114-130.
ISSN: 1363-5247
Publisher: E. & J. Brill Academic Press

‘Christopher Smart’s The Hop-Garden, and John Philips’s Cyder: a battle of the georgics? Mid-eighteenth-century poetic discussions of authority, science and experience.’ in British Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 22 No. 1, (Spring, 1999) pp.67-84.
ISSN 0141 - 876X
Publisher: British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

‘Christopher Smart and William Blake: A Distinctive Mode’, in The Early Romantics: Pope to Wordsworth, ed. Tom Woodman, (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998) pp.166-181.
ISBN 0333 711 459

‘Oliver Goldsmith and John Newbery: A Case of the Robert Maxwells?’ in Eighteenth Century Ireland, Iris an da chultur, Volume 13 (1998) pp. 149-158.
ISSN 0790-7915.
Publisher: Irish Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Performances
2007Performance of my play Love Intrigues, Landor Theatre, London, September 20-28.

2007Performance of my play Love Intrigues, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, August 7-14.

2007Performance of my play Written in Water by CP Theatre Productions, at Putney Arts Theatre, March 12-19.

2006Performance of my play And Did Those Feet … by CP Theatre Productions, at Putney Arts Theatre, March 11-18.

2001Option taken up on my book, Christopher Smart: Clown of God by BBC Radio 4 for their drama series Making Space. The play was first aired on 26 March 2002 at 2.15pm.

1988Option taken up on my film script fringtong beenz by First Film Foundation.

1988Performance of my play A Cuckoo’s Egg at Warwick Arts Centre by WUDS.

1986Performance of my play The Philosophy of Murder at the Gate Theatre, Notting Hill, by Paines Plough Theatre Company.

 

Research Interests

Eighteenth-century Literature, Sexuality, Disability Studies, Theology

 

Funding Awards and Professional Membership

Editor Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies
Conference Organizer: British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference since 2000
Conference Organizer: Queer People since 2002.