John T. Gilmore#
Membership Number: | 5407 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
Elected: | 2020 |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Homepage(s): | https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/people/gilmoredrjohn |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009 - 2018 Associate Professor, University of Warwick, Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies
- 2018 - present Reader, University of Warwick, Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies
- 2006 - 2009 Associate Professor, University of Warwick, Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies
- 1996 - 2006 Lecturer, idem (until 2001 Centre for British and Comparative Cultural Studies)
- 1992 - 1996 Managing Editor, Caribbean Week newspaper, Barbados
- 1990 - 1992 Copywriter/Producer, HCA Advertising (Hoyos, Carter & Atkinson Ltd.), Barbados
- 1986 - 1990 Cultural Officer for Literary Arts, National Cultural Foundation, Barbados (1986-90)
- 1986 - 1987 Part-time Tutor in History, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados
- 1986 - 1987 Part-time History Teacher, Queen’s College, Barbados (1986-7)
- 1982 - 1986 Visiting Lecturer/Assistant Lecturer, Department of History, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados
Fields of Scholarship
- Eighteenth-century British literature
- Caribbean literature
- History of Translation
- Neo-Latin poetry
Honours and Awards
- 2016 Research Project Grant (£249, 968 over 36 months), The Leverhulme Trust, for “Oriental poetry, Latin scholarship and the European Enlightenment: The case of William Jones”
- 2001 British Academy Small Research Grant for archival research in Jamaica
- 1982 Prince Consort Prize and Seeley Medal, University of Cambridge
- 1980 Lightfoot Scholarship in Ecclesiastical History, University of Cambridge