Neil Ramsey

Associate Professor Neil Ramsey is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature in the School of Humanities & Social Sciences at UNSW Canberra, University of New South Wales. His research examines literary and cultural responses to warfare during the eighteenth century and Romantic eras, with particular attention to representations of personal experience and the development of a modern culture of war. As convenor of the Conflict and Society Research Group in his school, he leads initiatives exploring the intersections of conflict, media, and society. Ramsey's career trajectory includes an Australian Research Council (ARC) Postdoctoral Fellowship from 2010 to 2013, which funded research for his monograph on military writing of the Romantic era. Earlier, he received support from the Australian National University through Vice-Chancellor’s Travel Grants, Conference Travel Grants from the Humanities Research Centre, and Faculty of Arts Fieldwork Grants. He also held the Australian Bicentennial Fellowship at the Menzies Centre, King’s College London in 2009, and the Stephen Copley Postgraduate Research Award from the British Association for Romantic Studies in 2007.

Ramsey has earned numerous accolades, including the Curran Fellowship from the Research Society for the Victorian Periodical in 2020, a Research Project-to-Publication Grant from the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions in 2016, Rector’s Start-Up Grant and Early Career Researcher Grant from UNSW Canberra in 2014, and Associate Investigator status with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions in 2013. His major publications feature the monograph Romanticism and the Biopolitics of Modern War Writing (Cambridge University Press, 2023) and The Military Memoir and Romantic Literary Culture, 1780-1835 (Ashgate, 2011). He co-edited War and Literary Studies (Cambridge University Press, 2023) with Anders Engberg-Pedersen and Tracing War in British Enlightenment and Romantic Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) with Gillian Russell. Key journal articles include 'Unsecure Keats and the Domestication of Security' in Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 (2023), 'The Liberal Paradigm of Security in Sir Walter Scott's The Antiquary' in Partial Answers (2022), 'Mary Shelley and the Monstrosity of War: Frankenstein and the Post-Waterloo Politics of Life' in Eighteenth-Century Life (2020), and 'James Montgomery’s Waterloo: War and the Poetics of History' in Studies in Romanticism (2017). He currently leads the ARC Discovery Project 'Romanticism and the Poetics of First World War Literature' (2023-2025), enhancing scholarship in war literature, Romanticism, and cultural history.

Professional Email: n.ramsey@unsw.edu.au