The Gordon B. Hinckley Postdoctoral Fellows in British Studies
Get to know our 2024-2025 Fellows
Dr. Chelsea Reutcke
Dr. Chelsea Reutcke is the Gordon B. Hinckley Postdoctoral Fellow in British Studies in the Department of History. She teaches courses on sixteenth and seventeenth-century Britain and serves as the assistant editor for the Journal of British Studies. Her research focuses on the intersection of religion, print culture, and politics in early modern Britain. Also drawing on legal, spatial, and memory studies, she investigates how clandestine book markets operated around censorship laws and the cross-confessional nature of Catholic print in the late seventeenth century. Her work highlights non-elite printers, booksellers, and publishers and brings new perspectives to contentious and overlooked figures including Queen Catherine of Braganza and James VII & II.
Dr. Sam Tett
Dr. Sam Tett is the Gordon B. Hinckley Postdoctoral Fellow in British Studies in the Department of English. Sam (she/they) specializes in long-nineteenth-century British literature and popular culture. Her areas of focus include gender and sexuality, the aesthetics of memory, the formation of modern romance, and the gothic, very broadly conceived. Among her other projects (see, e.g., her essay on deja vu’s long lost cousin, jamais vu, and her Collations Book Forum for V21), she is completing a book on Victorian memory titled Nostalgia’s Others: Paramnesia in Nineteenth-century British Literature and Culture, co-editing a Special Issue of Humanities titled “Queer Methodologies in Nineteenth-century Literature,” and embarking on a public-facing book project tentatively titled “The Romance Plot: Romantic Love and the Rise of Capitalist Individualism.”