Rachael King
Associate Professor
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- Education:
- Ph.D., New York University
- B.A., Columbia University
Rachael King studies the literature and media of the long eighteenth century, with particular interests in epistolary writing, newspapers and periodicals, and the history of the book. She is the author of The Book of Improvement: Media Landscapes in the Global Enlightenment (Yale University Press, 2026) and of Writing to the World: Letters and the Origins of Modern Print Genres (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018), and editor of After Print: Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Cultures (University of Virginia Press, 2020). Her hybrid memoir/cultural history, How Much, How Little: A Memoir of Reimagining Care, is under contract with One Signal Publishers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. Her essays have appeared in PMLA, Eighteenth-Century Studies, New Literary History, The New York Times, The Nation, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among other venues. She is also the Project Director and Principal Investigator for the Ballitore Project, a project combining archival research and computational analysis that has been funded by the UC-HBCU Initiative, the NEH, and the ACLS. She has been the recipient of a British Academy Visiting Fellowship and Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Critical Bibliography, among other awards. She completed her Ph.D. in English and American Literature at New York University, and her B.A. in Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University.
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Selected Publications
Writing to the World: Letters and the Origins of Modern Print Genres. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.
“All the News That’s Fit to Write: The Eighteent-Century Manuscript Newsletter.” Travelling Chronicles: News and Newspapers from the Early Modern Period to the Eighteenth Century. Eds. Siv Gøril Brandtzæg, Paul Goring and Christine Watson. Leiden: Brill, 2018. 95-118. (Open Access)
“‘[L]et a girl read’: Periodicals and Women’s Literary Canon Formation.” Women’s Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1690-1820s: The Long Eighteenth Century. The Edinburgh History of Women’s Periodical Culture in Britain, Vol. 1. Eds. Jennie Batchelor and Manushag Powell. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018.
“The Pleasures of ‘the World’: Rewriting Epistolarity in Burney, Edgeworth, and Austen.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 29.1 (Fall 2016): 67-89.
“The Manuscript Newsletter and the Rise of the Newspaper, 1665-1715.” Huntington Library Quarterly 79.3 (Autumn 2016): 411-437.
“‘Interloping with my Question-Project’: Debating Genre in John Dunton’s and Daniel Defoe’s Epistolary Periodicals.” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 44 (2015): 121-142.
“Letters from the Highlands: Scribal Publication and Media Shift in Victorian Scotland.” Book History 17 (2014): 298-320.
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