Dr Stephen Pigney

Academic qualifications

BA University of Durham, 1992
MA Warburg Institute, University of London, 1994
PhD Warburg Institute, University of London, 2000

Teaching

First year
HT51017A Concepts and Methods in History
HT51023A Ideas and Identities

Second and third year
HT52087A/HT53087A Early Modern European Philosophy

Administration

Tutor for Undergraduate Admissions

Research interests

My research interests are in early modern intellectual, cultural, literary and religious history. In particular I have worked on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century science and philosophy, and on English religious nonconformity in the second half of the seventeenth century. I am currently working on a monograph on the nonconformist theologian and philosopher Theophilus Gale (1628-79). I also do research on early modern British printed images and print culture more generally; in particular I am interested in seventeenth-century British book illustrations. In addition, I am interested in the methodology and issues relating to the digitization of early modern visual culture.

Previous Positions

Research Assistant, School of English and Drama, Queen Mary, University of London, 2000-2004

Research Assistant, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London, 2006-2009

Sessional Lecturer, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London, 2003-

Selected Publications

Review article on recent publications on British printed images (forthcoming, 2011)

 ‘A Virtual Museum or E-Research? British Printed Images to 1700 and the Digitization of Early Modern Prints’, in Brent Nelson and Melissa Terras (eds), Digitizing Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture (forthcoming), with Katherine Hunt

 ‘Theophilus Gale and Historiography of Philosophy’ in G.A.J. Rogers, Tom Sorell and Jill Kraye (eds), Insiders and Outsiders in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy (London: Routledge, 2010), pp. 76-98

 ‘Theophilus Gale (1628-79), Congregationalist Scholar and Intellectual: An Introduction to His Life and Writings’, Journal of the United Reformed Church Historical Society, 7 (2005), pp. 407-20