Tessa Whitehouse, MA (Cantab) MRes (London) PhD (London)

 

Dr Williams’s Centre Associate


email: m.whitehouse.01@cantab.net


Tessa Whitehouse works on the textual culture of religious dissent in the long eighteenth century with a particular focus on correspondence networks, international exchanges, life writing, and publishing history. Her doctorate was awarded in summer 2011 for a thesis investigating the educational and publishing activities of Isaac Watts, Philip Doddridge and their associates which drew on letters, lecture notes, accounts of educational institutions and a range of printed texts and paratexts. During her doctoral research, she produced a series of annotated transcriptions of documents relating to John Jennings’s dissenting academy at Kibworth and the plans of Doddridge and his circle to found a new academy in the late 1720s. These have been published on the website of the Centre for Dissenting Studies. She has published articles on dissenters’ intellectual exchanges, wrote eight tutor biographies and academy histories for Dissenting Academies Online: Database and Encyclopedia and is co-writing two chapters of the forthcoming History of the Dissenting Academies in the British Isles, 1660-1860. She is also reworking her thesis into a monograph and developing a new research project investigating varieties of nonconformist life writing in the period 1660-1830 while teaching English Literature at Queen Mary, University of London.


Her current and forthcoming publications include: