Alastair Bellany

Associate Professor

Ph.D., Princeton University

B.A. (First Class Honours), Oxford University

At Rutgers Since 1996

Executive Board, Rutgers British Studies Center

101B Van Dyck Hall
848-932-8542
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RESEARCH INTERESTS

My research continues to focus primarily on the political culture of early modern England, in particular the histories of political media, court culture, visual representation and political violence.  I am currently working on three (interrelated) projects on the political culture of England in the 1620s: England's Assassin, a study of the Buckingham assassination co-written with Thomas Cogswell; The Murder of James I, also co-written with Thomas Cogswell; and a study of painted portraiture and courtly sexuality in the 1620s.

COURSES REGULARLY TAUGHT

Undergraduate

• 510:101 Development of Europe I
• 510:245 The Arts of Power: Ritual, Myth and Propaganda from the Emperor Augustus to the Death of Diana, Princess of Wales
• 510:342 Reformation England, 1485-1603
• 510:344 Revolutionary England, 1603-1714
• 510:345 The English Revolution, 1640-60
• 506: 401, 402 History Seminars on Society and the Supernatural, and on Politics and Theatre
• Rutgers College Honors Seminar on Capital Punishment in Historical Perspective
• Byrne First Year Seminars: "How to Read a Verse Libel"; and "From Gallows Tree to Lethal Injection: Capital Punishment in Historical Perspective"

Graduate

• 510:603 Colloquium in Early Modern British History
• Co-taught (with Jennifer Jones) Colloquium on Early Modern French and British History
• 510:597 PDR in Early Modern European History

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• The Politics of Court Scandal In Early Modern England: News Culture and the Overbury Affair, 1603-1660, (Cambridge UP: Cambridge, 2002).
• Early Stuart Libels: An Edition of Poetry from Manuscript Sources (Early Modern Literary Studies: Texts Series I (2005)), co-edited with Andrew McRae
• “Libel”, in Joad Raymond (ed.), The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture (Oxford UP: Oxford, 2011)
• “Buckingham Engraved: Politics, Print Images and the Royal Favourite in the 1620s”, in Michael Hunter (ed.), Printed Images in Early Modern Britain (Ashgate: Farnham and Burlington, 2010)
• “The Murder of John Lambe: Crowd Violence, Court Scandal and Popular Politics in Early Seventeenth Century England”, Past and Present 200 (2008)
• “‘Naught But Illusion’?: Buckingham’s Painted Selves”, in Kevin Sharpe and Steven Zwicker (eds.), Writing Lives: Biography and Textuality, Identity and Representation in Early Modern England (Oxford, 2008)
• “Railing Rhymes Revisited: Libels, Scandal and Early Stuart Politics”, History Compass 5:4 (2007).

AWARDS

• 2012: ACLS Collaborative Research Fellowship (to be held during 2013)
• 2009: Seminar Director, Folger Institute, Folger Shakespeare Library
• 2003: Rutgers University Board of Trustees' Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence
• 2000: Rutgers University FAS Award for Distinguished Contribution to Undergraduate Education
• 1994: Whiting Fellowship
• 1987: Brackenbury Scholarship, Balliol College, Oxford

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• AHA
• North American Conference on British Studies
• Program co-chair Middle Atlantic Conference on British Studies 2001-2003