Jack Orchard
Jack Orchard, a second year PhD Student at Swansea University, is Research Assistant to the Elizabeth Montagu’s Letters Research Network, based at Swansea and Oxford Brookes Universities. He is also the Postgraduate Representative for the Swansea Gender Studies network GENCAS, and the British Society of Eighteenth Century Studies. He is working on a PhD Thesis on Reading Practices in the Epistolary Networks of Catherine Talbot, Elizabeth Carter, and Elizabeth Montagu.
Publications in EE:
- Autumn 2017 Miscellany — Reading and sociability in the correspondence of Elizabeth Montagu;
- Spring 2016 Miscellany — Enlightenment & Visual Impairment in the 17th & 18th Centuries.
AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award — Digital Humanities project
As part of an AHRC-CDA, supported by the Electronic Enlightenment Project (University of Oxford), Jack Orchard (Swansea University) has transcribed, edited, annotated and published
a collection of letters of Elizabeth Montagu & select friends.
