Dr Richard Kirwan

Dr Richard Kirwan

 

 
Contact Details

E-mail - rk22@st-andrews.ac.uk
Telephone - +44 (0)1334 462911
Fax - +44 (0)1334 463334

 

Teaching and Research Interests

Teaches early modern European history. His research explores the social and cultural history of universities in the early modern period with a focus on Germany. In particular it addresses questions of scholarly social status and identity and examines the social functions of academic representational culture.

Main Publications

  • Richard Kirwan, Empowerment and Representation at the University in Early Modern Germany: Helmstedt and Würzburg, 1576-1634 (Wolfenbütteler Arbeiten zur Barockforschung 46, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 2009).

Articles and Book Chapters:

  • Richard Kirwan, ‘Scholarly Reputations and Institutional Prestige: The Fashioning of the Public Image of the University of Helmstedt, 1576-1680,’ History of Universities, 25/2 (2010) (in press).
  • Richard Kirwan, ‘Akademische Repräsentationspraktiken und der Umgang mit dem Öffentlichkeitsbild der Institution,’ in Das Athen der Welfen: Die Reformuniversität Helmstedt 1576-1810, edited by Jens Bruning & Ulrike Gleixner (Wolfenbüttel, 2010), 120-27.
  • Richard Kirwan, ‘The Appeal to Tradition in the Ceremonial Prescriptions of the Statutes of Helmstedt, 1576’ in Gli statuti universitari: tradizione dei testi e valenze politiche, edited by Andrea Romano (Bologna, 2007), 295-302.


Teaching Duties

Teaches the following Honours courses:

Co-teaches the following postgraduate module:

 

 

Main Publications