David Russell

David Russell is a Lecturer in English at King's College London. He gained his Ph.D. in English Literature from Princeton University in 2011 and since then his research and teaching have been supported by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation, and by postdoctoral fellowships at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University and the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University. His book project, A Literary History of Tact: Sociability, Aesthetic Liberalism and the Essay Form, identifies the development of an ethic and aesthetic of tact in nineteenth-century Britain. His second project is called Learning from Experience: Aesthetic Education and Literary Criticism. He has work published or forthcoming in ELH, Raritan and Victorian Studies.