Catherine Dille
Associate Professor of International History
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School: Department of Social Sciences & Humanities
Research centres: International Visual Arts and Cultures
About
Catherine Dille holds degrees in English from the University of California at Berkeley (BA Hons) and Oxford University (MPhil, DPhil). She has previously held post-doctoral research fellowships and lectured at the Universities of Zurich and Birmingham. She has published on women’s travel writing and lexicography in the eighteenth century, and her current research focuses on aspects of the history of education in Britain between 1700 and 1850, schoolboy culture and family history in the early modern period. She is editor of the New Rambler, the journal of the Johnson Society of London, and is on the Council of the Camden History Society.
Research interests
Her current research focuses on aspects of the history of education in Britain between 1700 and 1850, schoolboy culture and family history in the early modern period.
Qualifications
- BA Hons in English from the University of California at Berkeley
- MPhil, Oxford University
- DPhil, Oxford University
Publications
- article, ‘Richard Livesay’s Eton Montem Painting’, Burlington Magazine, July (2022) 650-57.
- article, ‘The Eton Montem custom c. 1750-1844: privilege, pageantry and sanctioned misrule’. Cultural and Social History, 15:3 (2018), 361-77
- online article, ‘The Sociable Jane Austen’, The Digital Encyclopedia of British Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century [online], https://digitens.org/en/notices/jane-austen.html
- book essay contribution, ‘Education’ in Johnson in Context, ed. Jack Lynch (Cambridge University Press, 2014)
- edition, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany (1789), 2 vols, Chawton House Library Series, Women’s Travel Writing: Italy (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009).
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, entries for the following: George Birkbeck Hill, William Seward, Thomas Cadell the elder, Thomas Cadell the younger, Samuel Dyer, William Davies
- article, ‘Johnson’s Dictionary in the Nineteenth Century: a Legacy in Transition’, Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 17 (2005)
- book essay contribution, ‘The Dictionary in Abstract: Johnson’s Abridgment of the Dictionary of the English Language for the Common Reader’ in New Perspectives on the Dictionary, eds. Anne C. McDermott and Jack Lynch (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
