British & Irish Worlds GroupDr Gaby Mahlberg
PhD, MA, BALecturer in History
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Contact details: School of Arts & Social Sciences Northumbria University Lipman Building, room 315 Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST phone: +44 (0) 191 227 4666 fax: +44 (0) 191 227 3696 gaby.mahlberg@northumbria.ac.uk |
Biography
Before joining Northumbria, Gaby worked as a Lecturer in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Potsdam, Germany. She has previously taught early modern British and European History at the Universities of East Anglia (UEA) and at Queen Mary and Goldsmiths College, London, and also worked as a journalist. She completed her PhD on ‘Henry Neville and English Republicanism in the Seventeenth Century’ at the UEA in 2006. Her doctoral research was funded by the Cusanuswerk and a fees bursary from the UEA’s School of History.
Qualifications
PhD, University of East Anglia, 2006
MA, University of East Anglia, 2001
BA University of East Anglia, 1999
Teaching Interests
At level 4, Gaby co-convenes the year-long module HI0407 'Structures, Cultures and Ideas', which engages with key concepts in intellectual history such as 'empire', 'civilisation', 'the state' and 'modernity' from the ancients to the present day, and contributes to the pre-modern module HI0404 'European Worlds', as well as the historiography module HI0408 'Historians and History'.
At level 5, Gaby teaches the option HI0531 'Reformations and Revolutions in Early Modern Britain', which looks at the political, intellectual and religious history of Tudor and Stuart Britain, and co-convenes the historiography module HI0524 'Perspectives on the Past'. She also teaches on the work experience module HI0525 'Historians at Work'.
Gaby also supervises a number of level 6 dissertations on early modern topics, including ideas of liberty in seventeenth-century Britain, the popular image of Anne Boleyn, and female crime. She also is a module tutor on the MRes 'Research Development' module HI0701.
Research Interests
Gaby’s research specialism is in the intellectual and cultural history of seventeenth-century Britain, in particular the history of English republicanism. Her first monograph on Henry Neville and English Republican Culture: Dreaming of Another Game (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009) studies the English republican Henry Neville (1619-94) in his many facets as country gentleman, politician, political thinker, rebel and libeller. It traces the development of Neville’s political thought from the English Civil Wars to the exclusion crisis and beyond, while also challenging the way in which the history of ideas has been conceptualized in recent years by discussing Neville’s political theory alongside his lesser known libels, shams and poetry. The book also challenges an established view of Neville based on his collaboration with the better-known philosopher James Harrington and shows Neville as a political thinker in his own right. Gaby is currently working on the ‘British Exiles and the Republican Tradition in Europe’ after 1660 and on ‘Republican Religion’. She is also collaborating with Thérèse-Marie Jallais (Poitiers) on a project to study ‘The Vansleb Manuscript (1665) of Harrington’s Works’.
Research Students
Gaby currently co-supervises two MRes students, Liam Temple (History), working on ‘Gender and the Late Medieval Mystics’, and Ashleigh Blackwood (English Literature), working on ‘Obstetrics, Publishing and the Development of the Female Creative Identity’. Moreover, Gaby also co-supervises Maria Cannon’s PhD thesis on early modern ideas of parenting.
Gaby welcomes inquiries from students wanting to work in any area of seventeenth-century intellectual, political and cultural history and the history of political discourse.
Affiliations and Memberships
Member, Women’s History Network
Member, Arbeitskreis Deutsche Englandforschung (German Association for the Study of British History and Politics)
Member, Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands
Member, Deutscher Anlistenverband
Member, Société des Etudes Anglaises et Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
Fellow, Higher Education Academy
Awards and Fellowships
2011 (August): 1-month Herzog-Ernst Scholarship at the Research Center for Social and Cultural Studies in Gotha
2011: British Academy Small Research Grant
2010: Conference Grant, Thyssen Foundation, for the conference 'English Republican Ideas and Networks in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Europe', 30 June-2 July 2011, Potsdam University (Germany)
Publications
Books
Henry Neville and English Republican Culture in the Seventeenth Century: Dreaming of Another Game (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009).
Chapters and Articles
‘Authors Losing Control: The European Transformations of Henry Neville’s The Isle of Pines (1668),’ Book History (2012 forthcoming).
‘An island with potential: Henry Neville’s The Isle of Pines (1668)’, in: J.C. Davis/ Miguel A. Ramiro, Utopian Moments: Micro-Historical Approaches to Modern Literary Utopias (Bloomsbury Academic, 2012 forthcoming).
‘Patriarchalism and the monarchical republicans’, in: C. Cuttica and G. Burgess (eds), Monarchism and Absolutism in Early Modern Europe (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011).
‘The republican discourse on religious liberty during the Exclusion Crisis’, History of European Ideas (2011, forthcoming).
‘Author-Politicians and Political Authors: The Example of Henry Neville (1619-94),’ in: Joachim Frenk/ Lena Steveker, Anglistentag 2010, Saarbrücken, Proceedings [= Proceedings of the Conference of the German Association of University Teachers of English, xxxii] (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2011), pp. 247-254.
‘”All the conscientious and honest papists”: Exile and Belief Formation of an English Republican: Henry Neville (1619-94),’ in: B. Schaff (ed.), Exiles, Emigrés and Intermediaries: Anglo-Italian Cultural Transactions (Rodopi: Amsterdam, 2010).
‘Henry Neville and the Toleration of Catholics during the Exclusion Crisis’, Historical Research 83:222 (2010), pp. 617-34.
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