Dr. Michael Sanders

Biography

Michael Sanders is a Senior Lecturer in English and American Studies at the University of Manchester, having joined in 2006. He obtained his degree in English and American Literature from the University of Kent at Canterbury and completed his Ph.D. at Birkbeck College, University of London. Sanders has previously taught at Exeter University, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Northampton University, and Lancaster University. His primary research interests focus on the cultural politics of nineteenth-century working-class radicalism with a particular emphasis on the Chartist movement. He is a Co-Investigator on the AHRC-funded project 'Piston, Pen & Press,' which explores how the industrial working class accessed and participated in literary culture in Scotland and Northern England during the long nineteenth century. He has co-edited a collection of essays entitled 'Subaltern Medievalisms: Medievalism ‘from below’ Nineteenth-Century Britain' and has published extensively on the intersection of Chartist poetry, politics, and culture. Additionally, Sanders is involved in supervising postgraduate students focusing on early Victorian literature, Chartist radical literature, and working-class culture.

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