Dr Matthew Mauger, BA (Warwick) MA (Qld) PhD (London)
e-Strategy Manager (School)
Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 7353
email: m.p.mauger@qmul.ac.uk
Matthew Mauger works alongside Richard Coulton as e-Strategy Manager within the School of English and Drama. Together with Richard, he is responsible for:
- administering and maintaining the School’s Virtual Learning Environment (VLE)
- supporting academic staff in their use of online pedagogical and research tools
- managing the delivery of e-Strategy within the departments of Drama and English
In addition to his role within the School’s administrative team, Matthew also teaches and researches within the Department of English.
Research interests:
Matthew researches extensively in poetry of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries; in particular, he focuses on how Enlightenment legal debate forms an important context for artistic production in the period. He completed a PhD entitled Prophetic Legislation: William Blake and the Visionary Poetry of the Law in 2005, and has published an article about legal architecture in Blake's 1790s epic The Four Zoas. He continues to work on the writing of legal theorists including William Blackstone, Joseph Priestley, and Jeremy Bentham, and is currently working on a study of some of Blackstone's legal poetry. Another aspect of Matthew's research focuses on legal and commercial innovation, mercantile life, and the history of the civic institutions of the City of London; to this end he is currently pursuing projects concerning dissenting life in the City, and the China tea trade (1760-1830).
Publications:
- forthcoming; '"A Most Exquisite Dilemma": Conscience, Dissent, and the Limits of Civic Authority in London's Sheriffs Case', The London Journal
- Summer 2010; editor of Tea, Commerce and the East India Company, third volume of Pickering & Chatto series Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England
- Summer 2006; ‘The Discourses of Law and Architecture in Blake’s The Four Zoas’, Romanticism: The Journal of Romantic Culture and Criticism
- May 2001; ‘Criminal History Transported: An Enquiry into the Literary Origins of the Australian Convict Narratives’, Australian Studies