Dr. James Grande

Biography

James Grande completed undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at the University of Oxford. He worked as a research assistant for the Leverhulme-funded Godwin Diary Project and wrote his doctoral thesis on the radical journalist William Cobbett. He joined King's College London in 2011 as a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, focusing on the politics and aesthetics of religious dissent. Between 2014 and 2016, he was a postdoctoral research fellow on the ERC project 'Music in London, 1800-1851'. His research encompasses politics, print culture, and the Romantic period. His monograph, 'William Cobbett, the Press and Rural England: Radicalism and the Fourth Estate, 1792-1835' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), provides a new interpretation of Cobbett’s Burkean radical writing. Grande also co-edited several anthologies and volumes on literary studies and religious history. His upcoming monograph, 'Articulate Sounds: Music, Dissent, and Literary Culture, 1789-1840', is set to be published by the British Academy and Liverpool University Press in January 2026.

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