Jennie Batchelor
Jennie Batchelor is Head and Professor of English at the University of York, which she joined in 2023 after a little over two decades at the University of Kent, the University of Southampton, and Chawton House Library. The author of three monographs and four co-edited collections, she has published widely on eighteenth-century and Romantic literature and culture, with a particular focus on the rise of periodical print culture, women’s writing, material culture, book history, and the history of work. In 2013, she was appointed Consultant Editor for Adam Matthews Digital’s Eighteenth-Century Journals database. Shortly thereafter, she was PI on two Leverhulme grants, including “The Lady’s Magazine (1770-1818): Understanding the Emergence of a Genre” (2014-16), a digital humanities research project which produced a metadata-rich index for the c.15,000 text-based items the periodical published in its first half century. Among her relevant publications are Women’s Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1690–1820s (EUP, 2018) and The Lady’s Magazine (1770–1832) and the Making of Literary History (EUP, 2022), which won the Research Society of Victorian Periodicals Colby Book Prize in 2023.