Dr Declan Gilmore-Kavanagh
About
Declan Gilmore-Kavanagh is a Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Studies with research interests in the literary history of sexuality, Eighteenth-century British literature and culture, masculinity, disability studies, Irish literature, and representations of Western queer cultures.
Declan completed his PhD at Maynooth University, Ireland, where he was the grateful recipient of a John and Pat Hume Scholarship and an Irish Research Council doctoral award. He is Director of the Centre for Gender, Sexuality, and Writing at the University of Kent and was co-chair of the American Society for 18th-Century Studies Lesbian and Gay Studies Caucus from 2016 to 2018.
He is the author of Effeminate Years: Literature, Politics, and Aesthetics in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain (Bucknell University Press, 2017).