Paul Stephens

@P_R_Stephens

https://oxford.academia.edu/PaulRStephens

Supervisor: Dr Timothy Michael

Research Interests: C18th and C19th literature, philosophy, economics, and science; political theory; literature and form; aesthetics; visual art; theories of the creative imagination

Doctoral Research: Paul is a DPhil candidate and Warden at Lincoln College, Oxford. His doctoral thesis examines the poetry and prose of Percy Bysshe Shelley through the disciplinary lens of economic philosophy. The thesis explores how the poet’s understanding of concepts such as value, money, debt, and growth are shaped by his ethics, metaphysics, and epistemology. His research is funded by an AHRC-Sloane Robinson Foundation Studentship. Before coming to Oxford, he spent several years as a member of the finance team for heavy metal band Iron Maiden.

Recent Publications: 

Stephens, P., 'Percy Bysshe Shelley's Ethics of Debt', The Review of English Studies. [Advance Articles]

Stephens, P., 'Review: Jacqueline Mulhallen's Percy Bysshe Shelley: Poet and Revolutionary', The Keats-Shelley Review, 33:1 (June 2019), 134-136.

Stephens, P., 'Coleridge and the National Debt', European Journal of English Studies, 21:1 (March 2017), 26-42.

Current Teaching: 

'British Romanticism'. Oxford University Department for Continuing Education (Jan - Mar 2020)

A ten-week course that offers an accessible introduction to the literature and art of British Romanticism.

Further information and application details are available from the Course Website.

Current Roles:

Financial Officer: Uncomfortable Oxford Project

Postgraduate Representative: The British Association for Romantic Studies

Treasurer: The Charles Lamb Society

Treasurer: Romanticism and Eighteenth-Century Studies at Oxford (RECSO) Research Network