James Baker

Address Email The British Library, 96 Euston Rd, London, Greater London, NW1 2DB, UK. drjameswbaker@gmail.com

Education PhD, Cartoons and Caricature, University of Kent (2007-2010). Thesis supervisors Professor Grayson Ditchfield & Professor David Welch. Examiners Professor Stephen Conway (UCL) and Professor Mark Connelly. MA, History, Faculty of Humanities, University of Southampton (2004-2005). Thesis supervisor Dr Alastair Duke. BA, History, Faculty of Humanities, University of Southampton (2001-2004). First-class honours. Professional Appointments
Academic

Digital Curator, British Library (2013-) Postdoctoral Fellow, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (2012-2013). Assistant Project Manager, City and Region <http://www.cityandregion.org/> (2010-2012). Associate Lecturer, School of History, University of Kent (2009-2013).
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Academic Repository Coordinator, Information Services, University of Kent (2011-2012). Archive Cataloguer, Rochester Bridge Trust (2011). Learning and Teaching Assistant, JISC CARD project, British Cartoon Archive (2011). Awards and Fellowships Postdoctoral Fellowship, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 8,000 (2012). Research and Teaching Interests Georgian and Victorian graphic satire; the manufacture of visual culture; modern British history; digital humanities; spatial and network analysis; responses to the French Revolution; urban protest; satirical printing; representations of authority; visual theory. Publications
Books

Isaac Cruikshank and the business of satirical printing, 1783-1811 (forthcoming).

Articles

'Locating Gulliver: unstable loyalism in James Gillray's The King of Brobdingnag and Gulliver', Image & Narrative (Submitted) 'Jewishness and the Covent Garden OP War: Satiric Perceptions of John Philip Kemble', Nineteenth-Century Theatre and Film (Submitted) 'The OP War, Libertarian Communication and Graphic Reportage in Georgian London', European Comic Art 4:1 (June, 2011).
Reviews

'Jerry White, London in the Eighteenth Century and Robert O. Bucholz and Joseph P. Ward, London: A Social and Cultural History', Cultural and Social History (forthcoming 2013) 'Marc Baer, The Rise and Fall of Radical Westminster, 1780-1890 (Studies in Modern History)', Cultural and Social History (forthcoming 2013) 'Christina Parolin, Radical Spaces: Venues of Popular Politics in London 1790-c.1845', H-Albion, H-Net Reviews (June 2012). 'Todd Porterfield (ed), The Efflorescence of Caricature: 1759-1838', Reviews in History, 1084 (2011). 'Jenny Uglow, Words & Pictures: Writers, Artists and a Peculiarly British Tradition', Journal for EighteenthCentury Studies 34:3 (July 2011), 408-409.
Public Writing (most recent)

'Doctor Syntax: A Physical Object Analysis', The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship (April 2012).
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'Georgian Projections of Revolutionary Madness', The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship (January 2012).
Unpublished Work

'Isaac Cruikshank and the notion of British Liberty: 1783 - 1811' (University of Kent PhD thesis, 2010). 'William the Third and an English crisis of representation: visual typologies of a Dutch deliverer: 1688 1702' (University of Southampton, MA thesis, 2005). Grants Educational Programme Grant, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 236 (2012). Faculty of Humanities Strategic Research Development Fund, University of Kent, 200 (2012). Graduate School Researcher Development Award, University of Kent, 200 (2012). Graduate School Postgraduate Experience Award, University of Kent, 470 (2011). School of History Postgraduate Research Studentship, University of Kent, 12,000 (2008-2010). Conference and Exhibition Organisation Open Access for Early Career Historians, History Lab Plus (2013 forthcoming). Workshop organiser (with Karen Milloy, JISC), Institute of Historical Research. A tour in search of Doctor Syntax (2012). Exhibition curator (with Nicholas Hiley), British Cartoon Archive. Cradled in Caricature: a multi-disciplinary conference (2012). Conference organiser (with Danielle Thom), University of Kent. Cradled in Caricature: a multi-disciplinary symposium (2011). Symposium organiser (with Reeta Kangas), University of Kent. Pantomime Parliamentarians: politicians in cartoons past and present (2011). Exhibition curator (with Nicholas Hiley and Emily Dennis), British Cartoon Archive. AHRC South East Hub for History, Fourth Annual Postgraduate Conference (2009). Conference organiser (with Jaime Ashworth), University of Kent. Selected Presented Papers
Invited Talks

'The Royal Brat: making fun of George Augustus Frederick', Loyal Subversion? Caricatures from the Personal Union between England and Hanover 1714-1837, Herrenhausen Symposium, Hanover, Germany (February 2013). 'Ridiculous Liberty', Nottingham Contemporary (May 2012). 'The Peterloo Massacre then and now', The College of Richard Collyer, Horsham (September 2011). 'Isaac Cruikshank and the idea of British liberty, The Cartoon Museum, London (April 2011).
Conferences

'The Fight for the 'House that Jack Built'', British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 40th Annual Conference, Oxford (January 2011). 'The reconstruction of social history from the eighteenth/nineteenth century satirical print', Social History Society Southern Region Workshop, Goldsmiths, University of London (November 2009). 'Hypocrites censoring hypocrisy: Metropolitan Visual Satire and the Restrictive Power of British Liberty, 1770 - 1820', British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 38th Annual Conference, Oxford (January 2009). 'William the Third and an English crisis of representation: visual typologies of a Dutch deliverer, 16881702', Woord en beeld als wapen: niuws en propaganda in de zeventiende eeuw Congres Werkgroep Zeventiende Eeuw, Universiteitsbibliotheek Amsterdam (August 2008). Teaching Deformed, Deranged and Deviant, HI817, University of Kent. Master's level course, seminar leader (2012). Methods and Interpretations of Historical Research, HI878, University of Kent. Master's level course, seminar leader (2012). Victorian Britain, HI416, University of Kent. First year survey course, convener, lecturer, and seminar leader (2010-2013).
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Making History, HI360, University of Kent. First year core course, seminar leader (2009-2013). Britain and the French Revolution, c.1785-c.1804, HI5037/8, University of Kent. Third year special subject course, guest lecturer (2008-2012). Digital Projects City and Region <http://www.cityandregion.org/> ESRC and Rochester Bridge Trust funded research project (2010-2012). Teaching At Kent <http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/teachingatkent/> Founder (with Kate Bradley). Supported by the Unit for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching, University of Kent (2011-2013). Professional Activities The Comics Grid Editorial Advisory Board Member (2013-). History Lab Plus, Institute of Historical Research. Advisory Board Member (2012-). Manchester University Press. Manuscript Referee (2011-). Britain and the Sea (BBC Television). Programme Consultant (2012). Clio@Kent, School of History Postgraduate Reading Group, University of Kent. Founder and convenor with Don Leggett (2010-2013). Associate and Assistant Lecturer Representative, School of History, University of Kent. Elected position (2010-2013). Professional Affiliations British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Software Proficient user in research and teaching contexts of blogging platforms (Wordpress, Blogger), web development suites (Dreamweaver CS6), image processing tools (Photoshop, GIMP), geographic information systems (ArcGIS, TileMill, Google Earth), network analysis and visualisation packages (Gephi), and virtual learning environments (Moodle). References Available on request.

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