Principal Investigator
Barbara Taylor’s interests lie in the relationship between subjectivity and intellectual/political change. Her early research focused on feminist theory and history: she has published two well-known books on British feminism, and in the late 1990s she ran a Leverhulme-funded international research project on feminism and Enlightenment. Her current research focuses on ideas about selfhood and subjectivity in Britain during the long 18th century, especially ideas about the solitary self; she is writing a monograph provisionally titled Beast or God: Solitude and Subjectivity in Enlightenment Britain.