Dr Andrew Lacey
Senior Research AssociateProfile
I am Senior Research Associate on the Davy Notebooks Project (Arts and Humanities Research Council funded).
I joined the Department in 2014 as Senior Research Associate (Modern Humanities Research Association funded) on the Davy Letters Project (http://www.davy-letters.org.uk). Between 2015-18, I continued to work on the Davy Letters Project in posts funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the British Academy, and the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry.
I studied at Durham University (2004-07) and Newcastle University (2007-08; 2009-12). After completing my PhD (Arts and Humanities Research Council funded) on the philosophy of death in the poetry of William Wordsworth and Percy Bysshe Shelley, I worked as Research Assistant on two projects in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University: The Letters of William Godwin (Oxford University Press), gen. ed. Pamela Clemit, volume III, ed. by M. O. Grenby (forthcoming), and The Poems of Shelley (Longman Annotated English Poets), volume IV, ed. by Michael Rossington, Jack Donovan, and Kelvin Everest (London: Routledge, 2013).
I am Co-Editor of Nineteenth-Century Contexts.
I currently serve as the Postdoctoral Representative on the Departmental Research Committee. I also serve on the Project Board of Prosper (project led by the University of Liverpool; project partners the University of Manchester and Lancaster University; funded by the UKRI Research England Development Fund).
Research Interests
My current research interests include Romantic-period literature, 1798-1822 (especially poetry, and especially the writings of Shelley and Wordsworth); philosophy (especially of death) in Romantic-period literature; the writings of Humphry Davy (especially his letters), John Davy, and the relationships between literature and science in the early nineteenth century; and the theory and practice of scholarly editing. I have published articles on Crabbe, Davy, Keats, Shelley, and Wordsworth. I am currently completing my first monograph, on Shelley and death.
ORCID: 0000-0002-4029-8273
Humphry Davy's Notebooks: How Poetry Helped Create Scientific Knowledge
18/01/2021 → 18/07/2024
Research
Davy Notebooks Project travelling exhibition (London, Morpeth, and Grasmere)
Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition
Davy Notebooks Project ‘Science and/or Poetry: Interdisciplinarity in Notebooks’ conference
Participation in conference - Academic
‘Humphry Davy (1778-1829): His Life, Letters, and Notebooks’ (Lunar Society public lecture)
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
‘Humphry Davy (1778-1829): His Life, Letters, and Notebooks’ (U3A Science and Technology Group public lecture)
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
‘Zooniverse – A Beginner’s Guide’ workshop, Archives West Midlands (November 2022)
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
British Association for Romantic Studies/North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Joint International Conference 2022: New Romanticisms
Participation in conference - Academic
Shelley Conference 2022, Keats House Museum, Hampstead, London
Participation in conference - Academic
‘Humphry Davy (1778-1829): His Life, Letters, and Notebooks’ (Lancaster and Morecambe U3A Group public lecture)
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
British Society for Literature and Science 17th Annual Conference
Participation in conference - Academic
‘Excel in Science’ webinar, University of Nottingham: ‘Re-Emerging Research’
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
ELH: English Literary History (Journal)
Publication peer-review
British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 51st Annual Conference: Indifference and Engagement
Participation in conference - Academic
Keats-Shelley Memorial Association Keats-Shelley Prize (Essay, First Prize)
Prize (including medals and awards)