Dr Neil Ramsey | UNSW Research

My Expertise

War Literature
Romantic and Eighteenth Century Literature
Cultural History of War
Literary Theory
War and Media
British and Irish Literature

Fields of Research (FoR)

British and Irish Literature, Literary Studies

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Biography

Dr Neil Ramsey is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature. He works on the literary and culture responses to warfare during the eighteenth century and Romantic eras, focusing on the representations of personal experience and the development of a modern culture of war. His first book,The Military Memoir and Romantic Literary Culture, 1780-1835, was published by Ashgate in 2011. His most recent, a collection co-edited with Gillian Russell, Tracing War in British Enlightenment and Romantic Culture, was published by Palgrave in 2015. He is currently completing a monograph on military writing of the Romantic era, the research for which was funded by an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship that he held from 2010-2013. He is convenor of the Conflict and Society Research Group in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Scholarships of $35,000 (AUD) are available at UNSW Canberra for PhD students who achieved H1/High Distinction in their undergraduate program and/or have completed a Masters by Research. Scholarships of $10,000 (AUD) are also available to Australian/NZ students to undertake Honours. If you are interested, contact me at n.ramsey@unsw.edu.au

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My Grants

Romanticism and the Poetics of First World War Literature, Australian Research Council Discovery Project, 2023-25
Curran Fellowshiop, Research Society for the Victorian Periodical, 2020
Research Project‐to‐Publication Grant, ARC Centre of Excellence for The History of Emotions, 2016
Conference Funding, Mediating War in the Early Modern World, 1600-1815 Conference, Australian Centre for the Study of Armed Conflict and Society, University of New South Wales Canberra, 2015
Rector’s Start-Up Grant, University of New South Wales Canberra, 2014
Early Career Researcher Grant, University of New South Wales Canberra, 2014
Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for The History of Emotions, 2013
Conference Funding, War’s Affect Conference, Humanities Research Centre, The Australian National University 2011
Conference Funding, Embattled Men: Masculinity and War Conference, Faculty of Arts, The Australian National University 2011
Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship, Australian Research Council Discovery Project, 2010-13
Conference Travel Grant, College of Arts and Social Sciences, The Australian National University, 2009
Australian Bicentennial Fellowship, the Menzies Centre, King’s College London, 2009
Stephen Copley Postgraduate Research Award, British Association for Romantic Studies, 2007
Vice-Chancellor’s Travel Grant, The Australian National University, 2007
Conference Travel Grant, Humanities Research Centre, The Australian National University, 2007
Faculty of Arts Fieldwork Grant, College of Arts and Social Sciences, The Australian National University, 2004