Member Profile
Name:
Dr Paul Stephens
Institution:
University of Oxford
Academic status:
Independent scholar
Main discipline:
Literary Studies
Additional disciplines:
Art History
Cultural Studies
History
Cultural Studies
History
Other societies:
British Association for Romantic Studies;
British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies;
The Charles Lamb Society;
The Hazlitt Society;
The John Clare Society;
The Keats Shelley Memorial Association;
British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies;
The Charles Lamb Society;
The Hazlitt Society;
The John Clare Society;
The Keats Shelley Memorial Association;
Research interests:
I am a postdoctoral ECR and Junior Dean at Lincoln College, Oxford. My doctoral thesis - 'Percy Bysshe Shelley and the Economic Imagination'- examined the poet's work through the disciplinary lens of economic philosophy. The thesis therefore examined how Shelley’s work reflects upon epistemological questions concerning the acquisition of economic knowledge; metaphysical questions concerning the nature of specific economic phenomena; and ethical questions concerning the moral outcome of activity in the economic sphere. My research was funded by an AHRC-Sloane Robinson Foundation Studentship.