Our final post for #BadFeelings week is by the eminent and influential philosopher of emotions Ronald de Sousa, Emeritus Professor at the University of Toronto. His main research areas are philosophy of emotions, philosophy of mind, philosophy of biology, Plato, psychoanalysis, … Continue reading
Dr Sally Holloway and Jane Mackelworth report on the second meeting of their community book group, exploring love and its history through literature… The second meeting of our ‘Reading Emotions’ book group focused on Mary Hays’ semi-autobiographical novel Memoirs of Emma Courtney, published … Continue reading
Dr Sally Holloway and Jane Mackelworth report on the first meeting of their community book group, exploring love and its history through literature… Our new ‘Reading Emotions’ community book group aims to engage members of the public with the changing nature of … Continue reading
Jane Mackelworth is a PhD candidate at the Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary University of London, working on a thesis entitled ‘Writing Sapphic Love and Desire in Britain, 1900-1950.’ Dr Sally Holloway is an Affiliated Research Scholar at the … Continue reading
Katherine Angel is a Leverhulme Research Fellow at the Centre of the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary University of London, where she works on the history of sexuality and psychiatry. She is the author of Unmastered: A Book … Continue reading
Dr Sally Holloway completed her AHRC-funded PhD on romantic love in eighteenth-century England at Royal Holloway in 2013. She is currently a Historical Researcher at Kensington Palace, and Affiliated Research Scholar at the Centre for the History of the Emotions. … Continue reading
Dr Hera Cook is an historian of emotions and sexuality at the University of Otago, Wellington, with current interests in emotional management and inequality. Here she reviews William Reddy’s new book for the History of Emotions Blog. William Reddy is a historian whose work … Continue reading
Dr David Lederer is an historian of medicine, madness, sexuality, and religion, especially in the early modern period, at NUI Maynooth. Here he reviews William Reddy’s new book, for the History of Emotions Blog. During the Summer of Love in San … Continue reading
Dr Katherine Clark is a medieval historian at the College at Brockport, State University of New York. Here she reviews William Reddy’s new book for the History of Emotions Blog. William Reddy ends his study of the emergence of romantic love … Continue reading
William M. Reddy is a pioneer historian of the emotions. His 2001 book, The Navigation of Feeling: A Framework for the History of Emotions is one of the landmarks in the field. His most recent book, The Making of Romantic Love: Longing and … Continue reading