Charlotte May

Contact

• workRoom C01b Humanities Building
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• charlotte.may@nottingham.ac.uk
• https://twitter.com/CharlotteFMay

Biography

I undertook my BA (2011), MA (2012) and PhD (2017) in the School of English at the University of Nottingham, specialising in eighteenth and nineteenth century literature. Since then, I have worked in a variety of research, teaching, and research support roles at the University, as well as projects with Museums and heritage organisations. I am currently a Trustee of Keswick Museum with particular responsibility for the Museum's literary collections.

Expertise Summary

I have extensive experience of supporting research in Higher Education and Museum settings, including the development of education provision for diverse audiences.

As a literary historian, my expertise includes editing letters of eighteenth and nineteenth century individuals and the study of sociability. My PhD was a selected edition of the correspondence of the banker-poet Samuel Rogers (1763-1855), and I continue to transcribe and edit his letters, which number over six hundred. I am currently working on publishing these.

I have undertaken extensive studies on the eighteenth and nineteenth century literary marketplace and publishing as commercialism, including interactions between authors and political figures, with a focus on non-canonical and marginalised individuals.

Research Summary

I am a Knowledge Exchange Fellow for the AHRC funded City of Caves project (PI Dr Chris King). My research includes working on archival material and with community organisations to reconsider the… read more

Recent Publications

• 2023. The Professional Poet in the Romantic Period: Unpublished letters from Samuel Rogers to William Wordsworth Romanticism. 29(1), 68-79
• 2021. The Suppression of English Bards and Scotch Reviewers: An Unpublished Letter from Lord Holland to Samuel Rogers Byron Journal. 49(2), 153-158

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Current Research

I am a Knowledge Exchange Fellow for the AHRC funded City of Caves project (PI Dr Chris King). My research includes working on archival material and with community organisations to reconsider the role of Nottingham's sinterranean spaces in the city's historical and contempotary urban development.

My literary research is centered on the letters of the banker-poet Samuel Rogers (1763-1855). However, I generally work on poetry and politics of the Romantic period, including sociability and legislation, with a focus on unpublished manuscript material.

• 2023. The Professional Poet in the Romantic Period: Unpublished letters from Samuel Rogers to William Wordsworth Romanticism. 29(1), 68-79
• 2021. The Suppression of English Bards and Scotch Reviewers: An Unpublished Letter from Lord Holland to Samuel Rogers Byron Journal. 49(2), 153-158