Dr Alex Benchimol

  • Senior Lecturer in Scottish Romantic Print Culture) (English Literature)

telephone: 01413302695
email: Alex.Benchimol@glasgow.ac.uk

R309 Level 3, English Literature, 5 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QH

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5948-0086

Research interests

  • Scottish Romanticism
  • Radical intellectual culture in the Romantic period
  • Scottish periodical history in the long eighteenth century
  • Scottish Enlightenment
  • Theories of the public sphere & comparative national media
  • Eco-criticism

Biography

Dr. Alex Benchimol is Senior Lecturer in Scottish Romantic Print Culture and has been teaching in the School since 2003.  Dr. Benchimol is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and is the co-founder, with Dr. Gerard Lee McKeever, of the Scottish Romanticism Research Group (SRRG), which he co-convened with Dr McKeever from 2010-19. Alex is a native of Phoenix, Arizona and was educated at The College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio where he studied English and History, and holds Masters degrees in Media and Cultural Studies, and English, from the Universities of Glasgow and Toronto, respectively. He completed a doctorate in the Department of English Literature at the University of Glasgow in 2001.

Dr. Benchimol’s primary research interests include Scottish periodical history in the long eighteenth century, Scottish Romanticism, radical Romantic period intellectual culture, the Scottish Enlightenment, theories of the public sphere, and ecological writing (he was co-investigator on an AHRC-funded research network, Values of Environmental Writing in 2010-11). His first monograph charts the contested development of cultural criticism in Britain during the early nineteenth century: Intellectual Politics and Cultural Conflict in the Romantic Period: Scottish Whigs, English Radicals and the Making of the British Public Sphere. It has been reviewed in the BARS Bulletin and Review, Romantic Textualities, Scottish Literary Review, The Year’s Work in English Studies, Eighteenth-Century Scotland, the Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies, and the European Journal of English Studies.

His research and review essays have been published in journals such as Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Textual Practice, Romantic Circles Reviews, Romanticism, Thesis ElevenRadical Philosophy, The BARS Review, The European Legacy and the Romantic Circles Praxis Series.

Alex’s current research explores the development of Scottish civil society, constitutional identity and the national press in the long eighteenth century, including the emergence of a distinctive Scottish public sphere since 1707, reflected in contributions to The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Romanticism (2011), Studies in Scottish Literature (2013) and in his 2015 essay collection (with Rhona Brown and David Shuttleton) Before Blackwood’s: Scottish Journalism in the Age of Enlightenment (2015).

In 2018 his essay volume with Gerard McKeever was published, Cultures of Improvement in Scottish Romanticism, 1707-1840, in Routledge’s Enlightenment World series. The research volume, featuring work by leading scholars in Scottish Romantic studies, developed from a SRRG symposium held in 2015 at the University of Glasgow. Alex’s next monograph project, Print, Nation and Improvement: The Scottish Press and Public Sphere, 1707-1801, investigates the interrelated dynamics of national identity, material improvement and civic-based constitutional reform in the eighteenth-century Scottish press and public sphere. Alex has two essays currently in press: one for Scottish Historical Review on discourses of reform in the Glasgow Advertiser (1783-1801) newspaper, and another on the Glasgow Advertiser and Gore’s Liverpool Advertiser for an essay collection on Print Culture, Agency and Regional Identity in the Handpress Era—a key output from his participation in the Print Culture, Agency and Regional Identity research network.

Extending his research on the Scottish press and public sphere into the twenty-first century, Alex has collaborated with Professor Philip Schlesinger of the Centre for Cultural Policy Research on two complementary research programmes funded by awards from the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Securing Scotland’s Voice: Strategic Responses to the Digital Media Revolution in the National Press (2013) linked key assessments of the economic, regulatory and political challenges facing the Scottish newspaper press from researchers, journalists, and policymakers within Scotland and the wider UK, while also providing international perspectives on the current state of Scotland’s national media from leading researchers and practitioners representing comparable national media ecologies in Europe and North America. This project resulted in a widely disseminated public policy article for Policy Scotland (2014) and a featured cluster of essays in the journal Media, Culture and Society (2015), which Dr. Benchimol co-edited with Prof. Schlesinger.

In 2016 Dr. Benchimol and Prof. Schlesinger were awarded with another RSE grant to fund a companion research project on the Scottish press and constitutional change, 1707 and 2014: the National Press , Civil Society and Constitutional Identity in Scotland, which initiated a seminar series and research network among historians of the Scottish press, constitutional experts, scholars of the nation’s contemporary media, civil society activists, policymakers and media industry stakeholders. Key outputs from this project included a special issue of the journal Scottish Affairs, co-edited by Dr Benchimol and Prof Schlesinger, published in 2018, as well as a 2017 report on the seminar series for Policy Scotland.

Alex co-organized the 12th Biennial International Conference of the British Association for Romantic Studies: Enlightenment, Romanticism & Nation, and the Before Blackwood's: Scottish Journalism in the Age of Enlightenment symposium.

Dr. Benchimol has acted as an academic expert for a number of media projects, including for BBC 4’s Lyrical Journey series in 2011, and a 2017 BBC Scotland documentary, The Paper Thistle: 200 Years of the Scotsman. He has also written on the legacy of the founding editor and publisher of the Glasgow Advertiser newspaper for The Herald in 2018.

Publications

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Number of items: 49.

2025

Benchimol, A. (2025) Print, Nation, and Improvement: the Scottish Press and Public Sphere, 1699-1800. Series: The Enlightenment World. Routledge: London. (Accepted for Publication)

2023

Benchimol, A. (2023) The Press, 1707-1835. In: Duncan, I. (ed.) The Cambridge History of Scottish Literature. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. (In Press)

2022

Benchimol, A. (2022) Policing the industrial order in the west of Scotland: the Radical War and its aftermath in the Glasgow Herald, 1819-20. In: Carruthers, G., Gallagher, K. T., Lamont, C. and Smith, G. (eds.) 1820: Scottish Rebellion: Essays on a Nineteenth-Century Insurrection. John Donald: Edinburgh, pp. 74-92. ISBN 9781910900833

Benchimol, A. (2022) Print agency and civic press identity across the border: commerce and regional improvement in the Glasgow Advertiser, Liverpool General Advertiser, and the urban directories of Liverpool and Glasgow, 1765-95. In: Stenner, R., Smith, A. J. and Kramer, K. (eds.) Print Culture, Agency and Regional Identity in the Hand Press Period. Series: New Directions in Book History. Palgrave Macmillan: London. ISBN 9783030880545 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-88055-2_8)

2021

Benchimol, A. (2021) From rebellion to reform: representations of regional and civic improvement in the Aberdeen Journal, 1747-85. Northern Scotland, 12(2), pp. 196-220. (doi: 10.3366/nor.2021.0249)

Benchimol, A. (2021) Thomas McGrugar’s ‘Letters of Zeno’: Patriotic Print & Constitutional Improvement in the Caledonian Mercury, 1782-1783. Studies in Scottish Literature, 47(1), pp. 67-90.

2020

Benchimol, A. (2020) The ‘Spirit of Liberal Reform’: representation, slavery and constitutional liberty in the Glasgow Advertiser, 1789-94. Scottish Historical Review, 99(1), pp. 51-84. (doi: 10.3366/shr.2020.0434)

2019

Benchimol, A. (2019) The history of the Scottish press and independence. Sunday National, 8 Sep,

2018

Benchimol, A. (2018) Agenda: the debt that is owed to The Herald's founding editor. Herald, 6 Dec, p. 15.

Benchimol, A. and McKeever, G. L. (2018) Introduction: mapping cultures of improvement in Scottish Romanticism. In: Benchimol, A. and McKeever, G. L. (eds.) Cultures of Improvement in Scottish Romanticism, 1707-1840. Series: The enlightenment world: political and intellectual history of the long eighteenth century. Routledge: New York ; London, pp. 1-16. ISBN 9781138482937

Benchimol, A. and McKeever, G. L. (Eds.) (2018) Cultures of Improvement in Scottish Romanticism, 1707-1840. Series: The enlightenment world: political and intellectual history of the long eighteenth century. Routledge. ISBN 9781138482937

Benchimol, A. (2018) Let Scotland flourish by the printing of the word: commerce, civic enlightenment and national improvement in the Glasgow Advertiser, 1783-1800. In: Benchimol, A. and McKeever, G. L. (eds.) Cultures of Improvement in Scottish Romanticism, 1707-1840. Series: The enlightenment world: political and intellectual history of the long eighteenth century. Routledge: New York, pp. 51-73. ISBN 9781138482937

Benchimol, A. and Schlesinger, P. (2018) Special Issue: 1707 and 2014: The National Press, Civil Society and Constitutional Identity in Scotland [Guest Editors]. Scottish Affairs, 27(1),

Benchimol, A. and Schlesinger, P. (2018) Introduction: 1707, 2014 and the constitutional imperative in Scotland’s national press and civil society. Scottish Affairs, 27(1), pp. 1-10. (doi: 10.3366/scot.2018.0217)

Benchimol, A. (2018) The Scottish press, the Union and civil society after 1707: the Glasgow Advertiser and the General Assembly Test Act debate of 1790. Scottish Affairs, 27(1), pp. 82-91. (doi: 10.3366/scot.2018.0226)

2017

Benchimol, A. and Schlesinger, P. (2017) First Minister’s referendum call rivets Scottish constitution workshop. [Website]

2016

Benchimol, A. (2016) James Grande, William Cobbett, the Press and Rural England: Radicalism and the Fourth Estate, 1792–1835. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. 250. £58. ISBN 9781137380074. BARS Review, 48, pp. 47-48. [Book Review]

2015

Benchimol, A. , Brown, R. and Shuttleton, D. (Eds.) (2015) Before Blackwood's: Scottish Journalism in the Age of Enlightenment. Series: Enlightenment World. Pickering and Chatto: London. ISBN 9781848935501

Schlesinger, P. and Benchimol, A. (2015) Crosscurrents Special Section: Small Nations, the Press and the Digital Challenge [Guest Editors]. Media, Culture and Society, 37(1), pp. 101-151.

Benchimol, A. (2015) Scotland under the Scotch system: narratives of resistance from Cobbett’s tour in Scotland. In: Grande, J. and Stevenson, J. (eds.) William Cobbett, Romanticism and the Enlightenment: Contexts and Legacy. Series: Enlightenment world (31). Pickering and Chatto: London, pp. 93-106. ISBN 9781848935426

Benchimol, A. , Brown, R. and Shuttleton, D. (2015) Introduction. In: Benchimol, A., Brown, R. and Shuttleton, D. (eds.) Before Blackwood's: Scottish Journalism in the Age of Enlightenment. Series: Enlightenment world (29). Pickering and Chatto: London, pp. 1-8. ISBN 9781848935501

2014

Schlesinger, P. and Benchimol, A. (2014) Future of the Scottish press. Policy Scotland,

Schlesinger, P. and Benchimol, A. (2014) Small nations, the press and the digital challenge. Media, Culture and Society, 37(1), pp. 101-106. (doi: 10.1177/0163443714553561)

2013

Benchimol, A. (2013) For 'the PROSPERITY OF SCOTLAND': mediating national improvement in The Scots Magazine, 1739-49. Studies in Scottish Literature, 39(1), pp. 82-103.

Benchimol, A. (2013) Foreseeing the famine? William Cobbett's Irish writings. In: Lyons, P., Maley, W. and Miller, J. (eds.) Romantic Ireland: From Tone to Gonne: Fresh Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century Ireland. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle, UK, pp. 10-20. ISBN 9781443844208

2012

Benchimol, A. (2012) Jon Mee, Conversable Worlds: Literature, Contention and Community 1762-1830. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. 315. £55.00. ISBN 978-0-19-959174-9. BARS Bulletin and Review, 41, pp. 20-22. [Book Review]

Benchimol, A. (2012) Knowledge against paper: forgery, state violence and radical cultural resistance in the romantic period. Romantic Circles Praxis Series, 2012(Feb),

2011

Benchimol, A. (2011) Periodicals and public culture. In: Pittock, M. (ed.) The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Romanticism. Series: Edinburgh companions to Scottish literature. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 84-99. ISBN 9780748638451

2010

Benchimol, A. (2010) Intellectual Politics and Cultural Conflict in the Romantic Period: Scottish Whigs, English Radicals and the Making of the British Public Sphere. Series: Nineteenth century series. Ashgate: Farnham. ISBN 9780754664468

2007

Benchimol, A. and Maley, W. (Eds.) (2007) Spheres of Influence: Intellectual and Cultural Publics from Shakespeare to Habermas. Peter Lang: Bern. ISBN 9783039105397

Benchimol, A. (2007) Cultural historiography and the Scottish Enlightenment public sphere: placing Habermas in eighteenth-century Edinburgh. In: Benchimol, A. and Maley, W. (eds.) Spheres of influence: intellectual and cultural publics from Shakespeare to Habermas. Peter Lang Press: Oxford, pp. 105-150. ISBN 9783039105397

Benchimol, A. (2007) Debatable geographies of romantic nostalgia: the redemptive landscape in Wordsworth and Cobbett. In: Lamont, C. and Rossington, M. (eds.) Romanticism's Debatable Lands. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 92-104.

Benchimol, A. and Maley, W. (2007) Introduction: circling the public sphere. In: Benchimol, A. and Maley, W. (eds.) Spheres of Influence: Intellectual and Cultural Publics from Shakespeare to Habermas. Peter Lang: Bern, Switzerland, pp. 9-40. ISBN 9783039105397

2005

Benchimol, A. (2005) Remaking the Romantic period: cultural materialism, cultural studies and the radical public sphere. Textual Practice, 19(1), pp. 51-70. (doi: 10.1080/0950236042000329645)

2004

Benchimol, A. (2004) William Cobbett's geography of cultural resistance in Rural rides. Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 26(3), pp. 257-272. (doi: 10.1080/0890549042000280801)

Benchimol, A. (2004) Sir William Hamilton. In: Cumming, M. (ed.) The Carlyle Encyclopedia. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, pp. 207-209. ISBN 0838637922

2001

Benchimol, A. (2001) The cultural politics of the Habermasian public sphere: a re-examination of the modernity/postmodernity debate in its national, social and political contexts. European Legacy, 6(4), pp. 471-490. (doi: 10.1080/10848770120069214)

Benchimol, A. (2001) Kevin Gilmartin's Print Politics: The Press and Radical Opposition in Early Nineteenth-Century England. Romanticism, 7(2), pp. 205-209. (doi: 10.3366/rom.2001.7.2.205)[Book Review]

Benchimol, A. (2001) Lisa Lowe and David Lloyd (eds) The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital (Duke University Press, 1997). Thesis Eleven, 65, pp. 139-144. (doi: 10.1177/0725513601065000010)[Book Review]

2000

Benchimol, A. (2000) An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture 1776-1832. Ed. Iain McCalman. Romantic Circles Reviews, 4(1), [Book Review]

Benchimol, A. (2000) Kevin Sharpe and Steven N. Zwicker (eds), Refiguring Revolutions: Aesthetics and Politics from the English Revolution to the Romantic Revolution (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), x + 376 pp.,£31.50 (hardback), £12.50 (paperback). Textual Practice, 14(1), pp. 163-168. (doi: 10.1080/095023600363391)[Book Review]

Benchimol, A. (2000) Reviews: Nineteenth-Century Radical History After the Cultural Marxists. European Legacy, 5(3), pp. 415-419. (doi: 10.1080/713665486)[Book Review]

1999

Benchimol, A. (1999) Dennis Dworkin, Cultural Marxism in Postwar Britain: History, the New Left, and the Origins of Cultural Studies (Duke University Press, 1997). Thesis Eleven, 58, pp. 132-136. (doi: 10.1177/0725513699058000012)[Book Review]

Benchimol, A. (1999) Jürgen Habermas, A Berlin Republic: Writings on Germany (University of Nebraska Press, 1997). Thesis Eleven, 56, pp. 133-137. (doi: 10.1177/0725513699056000009)[Book Review]

Benchimol, A. (1999) The uses of cultural theory in romantic period studies: towards a new synthesis. Theory@buffalo, 5(Specia), pp. 106-135.

Benchimol, A. (1999) Apology for consumerism. Wilson Quarterly, 23(3), pp. 4-5.

Benchimol, A. (1999) Resistance through subcultures: review of Alan Sinfield: Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain Athlone Press, London and Atlantic Highlands NJ, 1997. xxx + 347 pp., £16.95 pb., 0485 12132 8. Radical Philosophy, 93, pp. 49-50. [Book Review]

Benchimol, A. (1999) Rewriting Carlyle and Scottish cultural history. European Legacy, 4(4), pp. 106-111. (doi: 10.1080/10848779908579986)[Book Review]

1998

Benchimol, A. (1998) David Lloyd and Paul Thomas, Culture and the State (New York: Routledge, 1998), 232 pp., £11.99 (paperback), £37.50 (hardback). Textual Practice, 12(2), pp. 390-396. (doi: 10.1080/09502369808582313)[Book Review]

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Number of items: 49.

Articles

Benchimol, A. (2021) From rebellion to reform: representations of regional and civic improvement in the Aberdeen Journal, 1747-85. Northern Scotland, 12(2), pp. 196-220. (doi: 10.3366/nor.2021.0249)

Benchimol, A. (2021) Thomas McGrugar’s ‘Letters of Zeno’: Patriotic Print & Constitutional Improvement in the Caledonian Mercury, 1782-1783. Studies in Scottish Literature, 47(1), pp. 67-90.

Benchimol, A. (2020) The ‘Spirit of Liberal Reform’: representation, slavery and constitutional liberty in the Glasgow Advertiser, 1789-94. Scottish Historical Review, 99(1), pp. 51-84. (doi: 10.3366/shr.2020.0434)

Benchimol, A. (2019) The history of the Scottish press and independence. Sunday National, 8 Sep,

Benchimol, A. (2018) Agenda: the debt that is owed to The Herald's founding editor. Herald, 6 Dec, p. 15.

Benchimol, A. and Schlesinger, P. (2018) Special Issue: 1707 and 2014: The National Press, Civil Society and Constitutional Identity in Scotland [Guest Editors]. Scottish Affairs, 27(1),

Benchimol, A. and Schlesinger, P. (2018) Introduction: 1707, 2014 and the constitutional imperative in Scotland’s national press and civil society. Scottish Affairs, 27(1), pp. 1-10. (doi: 10.3366/scot.2018.0217)

Benchimol, A. (2018) The Scottish press, the Union and civil society after 1707: the Glasgow Advertiser and the General Assembly Test Act debate of 1790. Scottish Affairs, 27(1), pp. 82-91. (doi: 10.3366/scot.2018.0226)

Schlesinger, P. and Benchimol, A. (2015) Crosscurrents Special Section: Small Nations, the Press and the Digital Challenge [Guest Editors]. Media, Culture and Society, 37(1), pp. 101-151.

Schlesinger, P. and Benchimol, A. (2014) Future of the Scottish press. Policy Scotland,

Schlesinger, P. and Benchimol, A. (2014) Small nations, the press and the digital challenge. Media, Culture and Society, 37(1), pp. 101-106. (doi: 10.1177/0163443714553561)

Benchimol, A. (2013) For 'the PROSPERITY OF SCOTLAND': mediating national improvement in The Scots Magazine, 1739-49. Studies in Scottish Literature, 39(1), pp. 82-103.

Benchimol, A. (2012) Knowledge against paper: forgery, state violence and radical cultural resistance in the romantic period. Romantic Circles Praxis Series, 2012(Feb),

Benchimol, A. (2005) Remaking the Romantic period: cultural materialism, cultural studies and the radical public sphere. Textual Practice, 19(1), pp. 51-70. (doi: 10.1080/0950236042000329645)

Benchimol, A. (2004) William Cobbett's geography of cultural resistance in Rural rides. Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 26(3), pp. 257-272. (doi: 10.1080/0890549042000280801)

Benchimol, A. (2001) The cultural politics of the Habermasian public sphere: a re-examination of the modernity/postmodernity debate in its national, social and political contexts. European Legacy, 6(4), pp. 471-490. (doi: 10.1080/10848770120069214)

Benchimol, A. (1999) The uses of cultural theory in romantic period studies: towards a new synthesis. Theory@buffalo, 5(Specia), pp. 106-135.

Benchimol, A. (1999) Apology for consumerism. Wilson Quarterly, 23(3), pp. 4-5.

Books

Benchimol, A. (2025) Print, Nation, and Improvement: the Scottish Press and Public Sphere, 1699-1800. Series: The Enlightenment World. Routledge: London. (Accepted for Publication)

Benchimol, A. (2010) Intellectual Politics and Cultural Conflict in the Romantic Period: Scottish Whigs, English Radicals and the Making of the British Public Sphere. Series: Nineteenth century series. Ashgate: Farnham. ISBN 9780754664468

Book Sections

Benchimol, A. (2023) The Press, 1707-1835. In: Duncan, I. (ed.) The Cambridge History of Scottish Literature. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. (In Press)

Benchimol, A. (2022) Policing the industrial order in the west of Scotland: the Radical War and its aftermath in the Glasgow Herald, 1819-20. In: Carruthers, G., Gallagher, K. T., Lamont, C. and Smith, G. (eds.) 1820: Scottish Rebellion: Essays on a Nineteenth-Century Insurrection. John Donald: Edinburgh, pp. 74-92. ISBN 9781910900833

Benchimol, A. (2022) Print agency and civic press identity across the border: commerce and regional improvement in the Glasgow Advertiser, Liverpool General Advertiser, and the urban directories of Liverpool and Glasgow, 1765-95. In: Stenner, R., Smith, A. J. and Kramer, K. (eds.) Print Culture, Agency and Regional Identity in the Hand Press Period. Series: New Directions in Book History. Palgrave Macmillan: London. ISBN 9783030880545 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-88055-2_8)

Benchimol, A. and McKeever, G. L. (2018) Introduction: mapping cultures of improvement in Scottish Romanticism. In: Benchimol, A. and McKeever, G. L. (eds.) Cultures of Improvement in Scottish Romanticism, 1707-1840. Series: The enlightenment world: political and intellectual history of the long eighteenth century. Routledge: New York ; London, pp. 1-16. ISBN 9781138482937

Benchimol, A. (2018) Let Scotland flourish by the printing of the word: commerce, civic enlightenment and national improvement in the Glasgow Advertiser, 1783-1800. In: Benchimol, A. and McKeever, G. L. (eds.) Cultures of Improvement in Scottish Romanticism, 1707-1840. Series: The enlightenment world: political and intellectual history of the long eighteenth century. Routledge: New York, pp. 51-73. ISBN 9781138482937

Benchimol, A. (2015) Scotland under the Scotch system: narratives of resistance from Cobbett’s tour in Scotland. In: Grande, J. and Stevenson, J. (eds.) William Cobbett, Romanticism and the Enlightenment: Contexts and Legacy. Series: Enlightenment world (31). Pickering and Chatto: London, pp. 93-106. ISBN 9781848935426

Benchimol, A. , Brown, R. and Shuttleton, D. (2015) Introduction. In: Benchimol, A., Brown, R. and Shuttleton, D. (eds.) Before Blackwood's: Scottish Journalism in the Age of Enlightenment. Series: Enlightenment world (29). Pickering and Chatto: London, pp. 1-8. ISBN 9781848935501

Benchimol, A. (2013) Foreseeing the famine? William Cobbett's Irish writings. In: Lyons, P., Maley, W. and Miller, J. (eds.) Romantic Ireland: From Tone to Gonne: Fresh Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century Ireland. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle, UK, pp. 10-20. ISBN 9781443844208

Benchimol, A. (2011) Periodicals and public culture. In: Pittock, M. (ed.) The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Romanticism. Series: Edinburgh companions to Scottish literature. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 84-99. ISBN 9780748638451

Benchimol, A. (2007) Cultural historiography and the Scottish Enlightenment public sphere: placing Habermas in eighteenth-century Edinburgh. In: Benchimol, A. and Maley, W. (eds.) Spheres of influence: intellectual and cultural publics from Shakespeare to Habermas. Peter Lang Press: Oxford, pp. 105-150. ISBN 9783039105397

Benchimol, A. (2007) Debatable geographies of romantic nostalgia: the redemptive landscape in Wordsworth and Cobbett. In: Lamont, C. and Rossington, M. (eds.) Romanticism's Debatable Lands. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 92-104.

Benchimol, A. and Maley, W. (2007) Introduction: circling the public sphere. In: Benchimol, A. and Maley, W. (eds.) Spheres of Influence: Intellectual and Cultural Publics from Shakespeare to Habermas. Peter Lang: Bern, Switzerland, pp. 9-40. ISBN 9783039105397

Benchimol, A. (2004) Sir William Hamilton. In: Cumming, M. (ed.) The Carlyle Encyclopedia. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, pp. 207-209. ISBN 0838637922

Book Reviews

Benchimol, A. (2016) James Grande, William Cobbett, the Press and Rural England: Radicalism and the Fourth Estate, 1792–1835. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. 250. £58. ISBN 9781137380074. BARS Review, 48, pp. 47-48. [Book Review]

Benchimol, A. (2012) Jon Mee, Conversable Worlds: Literature, Contention and Community 1762-1830. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. 315. £55.00. ISBN 978-0-19-959174-9. BARS Bulletin and Review, 41, pp. 20-22. [Book Review]

Benchimol, A. (2001) Kevin Gilmartin's Print Politics: The Press and Radical Opposition in Early Nineteenth-Century England. Romanticism, 7(2), pp. 205-209. (doi: 10.3366/rom.2001.7.2.205)[Book Review]

Benchimol, A. (2001) Lisa Lowe and David Lloyd (eds) The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital (Duke University Press, 1997). Thesis Eleven, 65, pp. 139-144. (doi: 10.1177/0725513601065000010)[Book Review]

Benchimol, A. (2000) An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture 1776-1832. Ed. Iain McCalman. Romantic Circles Reviews, 4(1), [Book Review]

Benchimol, A. (2000) Kevin Sharpe and Steven N. Zwicker (eds), Refiguring Revolutions: Aesthetics and Politics from the English Revolution to the Romantic Revolution (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), x + 376 pp.,£31.50 (hardback), £12.50 (paperback). Textual Practice, 14(1), pp. 163-168. (doi: 10.1080/095023600363391)[Book Review]

Benchimol, A. (2000) Reviews: Nineteenth-Century Radical History After the Cultural Marxists. European Legacy, 5(3), pp. 415-419. (doi: 10.1080/713665486)[Book Review]

Benchimol, A. (1999) Dennis Dworkin, Cultural Marxism in Postwar Britain: History, the New Left, and the Origins of Cultural Studies (Duke University Press, 1997). Thesis Eleven, 58, pp. 132-136. (doi: 10.1177/0725513699058000012)[Book Review]

Benchimol, A. (1999) Jürgen Habermas, A Berlin Republic: Writings on Germany (University of Nebraska Press, 1997). Thesis Eleven, 56, pp. 133-137. (doi: 10.1177/0725513699056000009)[Book Review]

Benchimol, A. (1999) Resistance through subcultures: review of Alan Sinfield: Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain Athlone Press, London and Atlantic Highlands NJ, 1997. xxx + 347 pp., £16.95 pb., 0485 12132 8. Radical Philosophy, 93, pp. 49-50. [Book Review]

Benchimol, A. (1999) Rewriting Carlyle and Scottish cultural history. European Legacy, 4(4), pp. 106-111. (doi: 10.1080/10848779908579986)[Book Review]

Benchimol, A. (1998) David Lloyd and Paul Thomas, Culture and the State (New York: Routledge, 1998), 232 pp., £11.99 (paperback), £37.50 (hardback). Textual Practice, 12(2), pp. 390-396. (doi: 10.1080/09502369808582313)[Book Review]

Edited Books

Benchimol, A. and McKeever, G. L. (Eds.) (2018) Cultures of Improvement in Scottish Romanticism, 1707-1840. Series: The enlightenment world: political and intellectual history of the long eighteenth century. Routledge. ISBN 9781138482937

Benchimol, A. , Brown, R. and Shuttleton, D. (Eds.) (2015) Before Blackwood's: Scottish Journalism in the Age of Enlightenment. Series: Enlightenment World. Pickering and Chatto: London. ISBN 9781848935501

Benchimol, A. and Maley, W. (Eds.) (2007) Spheres of Influence: Intellectual and Cultural Publics from Shakespeare to Habermas. Peter Lang: Bern. ISBN 9783039105397

Website

Benchimol, A. and Schlesinger, P. (2017) First Minister’s referendum call rivets Scottish constitution workshop. [Website]

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Grants

Co-I, ‘Values of Environmental Writing’, AHRC Network Grant, 2010-11 (PI: Dr. Hayden Lorimer, Geographical and Earth Sciences; Co-I: Dr. Rhian Williams, English Literature).

 

PI, ‘Securing Scotland’s Voice: Strategic Responses to the Digital Media Revolution in the National Press’, RSE Arts and Humanities Workshop Grant, 2013 (Co-I: Prof. Philip Schlesinger, Centre for Cultural Policy Research).

 

PI, ‘1707 and 2014: Civil Society, Constitutional Identity and the National Press in Scotland’, 2016-17 (Co-I: Prof. Philip Schlesinger, Centre for Cultural Policy Research).

Supervision

Dr. Benchimol is particularly interested in supervising postgraduate research on any aspect of Scottish Romanticism, radical intellectual culture of the romantic period, periodical culture of the long eighteenth century, literature and the public sphere, and theoretical approaches to British intellectual and cultural history.

 

Alex has successfully supervised postgraduate research projects on Improvement and Scottish Romanticism; postcolonial modes of hospitality in Scott's Waverley novels; Ossian and the writing of Scottish history; Blake, Whitman and Transatlantic Romanticism; Brazilian Romanticism; Victorian diaries and life-writing; and radical aesthetics in the Modernist novel.  He currently supervises projects on the Eco-monstrous in the fiction of Cormac McCarthy and R. A. Lafferty; and David Foster Wallace and American Pragmatism.

 

  • Lead Supervisor: Freire, Rafael Argenton (2010) Byron and Álvares de Azevedo: Byronism in Brazil. MPhil (R).
  • Lead Supervisor: Millim, Anne-Marie (2010) Preaching silence: the disciplined self in the. Victorian diary. PhD.
  • Lead Supervisor: Karagouni, Villy (2012) Voices of dissent: Interpenetrations of aesthetics and socio-politics in three modernist case-studies. PhD.
  • Co-Supervisor: Chiu, Kang-Yen (2012) Hospitality, nation and empire in Walter Scott's Waverley novels. PhD.
  • Lead Supervisor: Davidson, Ryan J. (2014) Affinities of influence: exploring the relationship between Walt Whitman and William Blake. PhD.
  • Lead Supervisor: McKeever, Gerard Lee (2014) Enlightened fictions and the romantic nation: aesthetics of improvement in long-eighteenth-century Scottish writing. PhD.
  • Lead Supervisor: Fertig, Anne R. (2015) Authentic fictions and aesthetic histories: the problem of the poems of Ossian in the writing of Scottish history, 1760-1814. MPhil (R).
  • Thoreson, Jonas Alexander
    The Clash of Publics on Red Clydeside: Periodical Print Cultures, Education and Pedagogy, and Public Opinion Formation in the Scottish Public Sphere, c. 1872-1945

Teaching

Dr. Benchimol teaches undergraduate Honours courses in nineteenth and twentieth-century American Literature, Romantic Literature, cultural theory, and ecological writing from the eighteenth century to the present.

 

He has contributed core teaching to MLitt programmes in Modernities, Victorian Literature and Romanticism at Glasgow. Alex administered the MLitt in Romanticism and the Forms of Modernity from 2003-2008, convened the MLitt in Enlightenment, Romanticism and Nation from 2008-10, and was overall Postgraduate Convener for English Literature from 2008-11. He convened the second year English Literature module in Writing and Ideology (2A) from 2013-16.

 

Dr. Benchimol was made a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2009.