Dr Richard Coulton, BA (Oxford) MA PhD (London)
e-Strategy Manager (School)
email: r.x.coulton@qmul.ac.ukRichard Coulton works as e-Strategy Manager in the School of English and Drama, as one-half of a job-share team. Together with Matthew Mauger he is responsible for:
- administering and maintaining the School’s Virtual Learning Environment (VLE)
- supporting staff in their use of online pedagogical, research, and administrative tools
- managing the delivery of e-Strategy within the departments of Drama and English
Richard and Matthew can be emailed jointly at sed-estrategy@qmul.ac.uk
Research interests:
As well as being involved in the administrative life of the School, Richard Coulton is involved in teaching and research within the Department of English. Under the supervision of Markman Ellis he completed a PhD on horticultural networks and discourse in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, and regularly presents seminar and conference papers on this and related topics. He has recently written (for the Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies) an article about an early-modern satire on the Royal Society’s Philosophical Transactions, and has edited (for Pickering and Chatto) a volume of natural-historical and medicinal texts about tea from the period 1660-1830. Current research projects include a journal article on commercial nurserymen in eighteenth-century London; another on John Philips's georgic poem Cyder (1708); and further work on the cultural history of Britain's involvement in the China tea-trade during the long eighteenth century.
Publications:
''The Darling of the Temple-Coffee-House Club': Science, Sociability and Satire in Early Eighteenth-Century London', Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies (forthcoming, 2011)
editor of Tea in Natural History and Medical Writing, volume 2 of Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England, edited by Markman Ellis, 4 vols (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2010)