Jessica Monaghan

Personal details

Email:

jkm208@exeter.ac.uk

2011-present:

Exeter University

PhD History:

PhD, AHRC funded.

'Simulating sickness: Perceptions of feigned illness within eighteenth-century British literature and culture'

2010-2011:

Durham University

MA Early Modern History (Distinction):

Supported by a Durham University Arts and Humanities departmental scholarship.

Throughout my MA my research focussed upon early modern bodies, gender, and culture, and my dissertation, "Somatic self-expression in eighteenth-century British correspondence, 1730-1800", built upon the foundations of my BA research, employing an interdisciplinary approach that involved much literary as well as historical analysis.

2007-2010:

Durham University

BA (Hons) History and English Literature (First Class):

My BA studies in joint honours covered a variety of early-modern historical themes and periods in addition to literature from the medieval to the modern periods, and culminated in my BA dissertation "Simulating Sensitivity: attitudes to affected nervous sensibility in eighteenth-century British literature and medicine".

CV: Membership of Professional Bodies/Professional Qualifications

2013-present:

Associate of the Higher Education Academy

I completed the LTHE level 2 course in 2013 and qualified as an Associate of the Higher Education Academy.

2013-present:

Society for the Social History of Medicine

I am a member of the Society for the Social History of Medicine.

2013-present:

Social History Society

I am a member of the Social History Society.