Dr James Everest

About
James in an intellectual historian who has published on aspects of seventeenth-century intellectual culture. Before gaining a PhD in History, he completed an undergraduate degree in languages and a Master’s degree in English Literature. Before joining LIS, he taught on interdisciplinary degree programmes at UCL and the University of Birmingham.
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Teaching
At LIS, James leads the BASc first-year problems module ‘Inequality’ and the final-year ‘Capstone’ module (the LIS version of an undergraduate dissertation).
He also leads the BASc elective methods module ‘Communities and Campaigning’, in which students use academic methods to campaign for real-world change.
He teaches close reading and historical contextualisation in the BASc modules Qualitative Methods 1a and Thinking through Writing and on the MASc module The Right Word.
Research
James’s research focuses on aspects of intellectual culture in seventeenth-century England. Selected publications include:
- ‘Francis Bacon’s Body and His Experiments on the Prolongation of Life’ in Testimonies: States of Mind and States of the Body in the Early Modern Period, edited by Gideon Manning. Springer (2020), pp. 41-57.
- ‘Francis Bacon’s Method and the Investigation of Light’, Intellectual History Review (2015) 25:4, pp. 391-400.
He was also the research assistant for Philippe Sands’s book The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive and the accompanying Radio 4 documentary series:
- Intrigue: The Ratline, BBC Radio 4 (2018)