Assistant Professor Stephen Vella
Britain and the British Empire
B-104 Tribble Hall; 758-3092
e-mail: vellasc@wfu.edu

Education:
AB Princeton University
MA Yale University
Ph.D. Yale University

Courses Offered:
HST 104: World Civilizations Since 1500
HST 223: Early Modern England (1485-1750)
HST 224: Modern Britain (1750-present)
HST 311: The British Empire
HST 390: Rethinking British Cultural History, 1707-2007

Professional and Research Interests: Cultural and social history of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain; British imperial identities; Nineteenth-century newspapers; Imperial borderlands in South Asia; Modern European intellectual history.

Selected Publications:
“Newspapers” in Miriam Dobson and Benjamin Ziemann (eds.), Reading Primary Sources. London: Routledge, 2008.
“Gentlemanly Conquerors: The Domestication of the Indian Frontier and the Fashioning of Imperial British Identity, 1790-1850” Ph.D. Dissertation. Yale University, 2007.
“Carlyle,” “Edward VIII,” “Cardinal Manning,” “John Henry Newman,” “Walter Pater,” “The Sepoy Mutiny,” “Tennyson” and “The Whigs” in John Merriman and Jay Winter (eds.), Europe, 1789 to 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2006.
“Imagining Empire: Company, Crown and Bengal in the Formation of British Imperial Ideology, 1757-1784.” Portuguese Studies 16 (2000).