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Rousseau is a cultural historian <ref>Raymond Stephanson, 'G. S. Rousseau as Cultural Historian', ''University of Toronto Quarterly'' 62(3) (1993): 388-400; Simon Richter, 'On the Threshold: G. S. Rousseau and the Discourses of Then and Now', ''The Eighteenth Century Theory and Interpretation'' 34 (Spring 1993): 85-95; for Rousseau's work on the human nervous system and its cultural manifestations over time see [http://www.springerlink.com/content/223r0m56k704n17w/]; Neil Vickers, 'Literary History and the History of Neurology', ''History of Psychiatry'' 22 (December 2011): 498: 'George Rousseau's work on the transmission of neurological ideas into the literary culture of the eighteenth century ... remains the essential reference-point in English studies for all attempts to map the cultural elaboration of medical thought. In the early 1970s, Rousseau put forward the novel thesis - now universally accepted - that the cult of sensibility that was so crucial for the rise of the novel in the eighteenth century was predicated on a series of neurological experiments carried out by the Oxford physician Thomas Willis in the late seventeenth century. One of the most impressive aspects of Rousseau's work was the sheer scale of his engagement with countervailing evidence: there is no better scholar of the history of scepticism about eighteenth-century doctrines of sensibility than George Rousseau.'</ref> who works in the interface of literature and medicine, and emphasizes the relevance of imaginative materials - literature, especially diaries and biography, art and architecture, music - for the public understanding of medicine, past and present.<ref>[http://www.uib.no/en/rg/lit_sci] and [http://video.dig.uib.no/engage/ui/index.html?series=9b751ac9-0c0a-4830-ac12-cd16daccc116]</ref> Rousseau is an ongoing member of the Core Team of the Norwegian Research Group in Literature and Science, and, from 2016-2020, will be the Samkul Visiting Professor of the Humanities at the [[University of Bergen]], Norway, funded by the [[Norwegian Research Council]].<ref>[http://www.uib.no/en/project/ageing/103728/challenges-cultural-history-and-interdisciplinarity] and [http://www.uib.no/en/rg/lit_sci/97378/george-rousseau-reference-list] and
Rousseau is a cultural historian <ref>Raymond Stephanson, 'G. S. Rousseau as Cultural Historian', ''University of Toronto Quarterly'' 62(3) (1993): 388-400; Simon Richter, 'On the Threshold: G. S. Rousseau and the Discourses of Then and Now', ''The Eighteenth Century Theory and Interpretation'' 34 (Spring 1993): 85-95; for Rousseau's work on the human nervous system and its cultural manifestations over time see [http://www.springerlink.com/content/223r0m56k704n17w/]; Neil Vickers, 'Literary History and the History of Neurology', ''History of Psychiatry'' 22 (December 2011): 498: 'George Rousseau's work on the transmission of neurological ideas into the literary culture of the eighteenth century ... remains the essential reference-point in English studies for all attempts to map the cultural elaboration of medical thought. In the early 1970s, Rousseau put forward the novel thesis - now universally accepted - that the cult of sensibility that was so crucial for the rise of the novel in the eighteenth century was predicated on a series of neurological experiments carried out by the Oxford physician Thomas Willis in the late seventeenth century. One of the most impressive aspects of Rousseau's work was the sheer scale of his engagement with countervailing evidence: there is no better scholar of the history of scepticism about eighteenth-century doctrines of sensibility than George Rousseau.'</ref> who works in the interface of literature and medicine, and emphasizes the relevance of imaginative materials - literature, especially diaries and biography, art and architecture, music - for the public understanding of medicine, past and present.<ref>[http://www.uib.no/en/rg/lit_sci] and [http://video.dig.uib.no/engage/ui/index.html?series=9b751ac9-0c0a-4830-ac12-cd16daccc116]</ref> Rousseau is an ongoing member of the Core Team of the Norwegian Research Group in Literature and Science, and, from 2016-2020, will be Samkul Visiting Professor of the Humanities at the [[University of Bergen]], Norway, funded by the [[Norwegian Research Council]].<ref>[http://www.uib.no/en/project/ageing/103728/challenges-cultural-history-and-interdisciplinarity] and [http://www.uib.no/en/rg/lit_sci/97378/george-rousseau-reference-list] and
[http://www.uib.no/en/project/ageing] and [http://www.uib.no/en/node/23679]</ref> The Samkul Award made by the [[Norwegian Research Council]] for the period 2016-2020 applies Rousseau's theories of interdisciplinarity to concepts of late style, societies in late development, late Western Capitalism and notions of lateness at large,<ref>[http://www.uib.no/en/project/ageing/102231/network-project-september-2015-%E2%80%93-july-2017]</ref> and endorses the historical and contextual methodologies he has been advocating for five decades in the study of literature and other disciplines.<ref>For the award grant and its methodologies see [http://www.uib.no/en/project/ageing/102187/interdisciplinary-approach-ageing-self]</ref> He is also an executive member of the [[Edinburgh History of Distributed Cognition]] project team, sponsored by the [[Edinburgh Centre for Epistemology, Mind and Normativity]] and funded by the [[Arts and Humanities Research Council]] of the United Kingdom.<ref>[http://www.hdc.ed.ac.uk/profiles/project-team] and [http://www.hdc.ed.ac.uk/profile-groups]</ref> The Edinburgh project brings together scholars in the humanities and sciences, especially literature and philosophy, medicine and the neurosciences, and is producing a multi-volume history of distributed cognition from the Greeks to the present time.<ref>[http://www.ed.ac.uk/history-classics-archaeology/classics/news-events/news-and-events-archive/news-and-events-2014/research-award-announced]</ref> Rousseau’s contribution lies primarily in the historical era of the Enlightenment, and follows on from his decades’ long commitment to interdisciplinary scholarship covering literature and the sciences, and literature and medicine especially as formulated in the current Medical Humanities.<ref>[https://muse.jhu.edu/article/376949/summary] and [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4917740-enlightenment-borders]</ref> In 2010 - 2012 Rousseau was the presenter of the [[Wellcome Collection]] Event Series in London called 'Tell It To Your Doctor'.<ref>[http://www.wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/events/tell-it-to-your-doctor-2.aspx]</ref>
[http://www.uib.no/en/project/ageing] and [http://www.uib.no/en/node/23679]</ref> The Samkul Award made by the [[Norwegian Research Council]] for the period 2016-2020 applies Rousseau's theories of interdisciplinarity to concepts of late style, societies in late development, late Western Capitalism and notions of lateness at large,<ref>[http://www.uib.no/en/project/ageing/102231/network-project-september-2015-%E2%80%93-july-2017]</ref> and endorses the historical and contextual methodologies he has been advocating for five decades in the study of literature and other disciplines.<ref>For the award grant and its methodologies see [http://www.uib.no/en/project/ageing/102187/interdisciplinary-approach-ageing-self]</ref> He is also an executive member of the [[Edinburgh History of Distributed Cognition]] project team, sponsored by the [[Edinburgh Centre for Epistemology, Mind and Normativity]] and funded by the [[Arts and Humanities Research Council]] of the United Kingdom.<ref>[http://www.hdc.ed.ac.uk/profiles/project-team] and [http://www.hdc.ed.ac.uk/profile-groups]</ref> The Edinburgh project brings together scholars in the humanities and sciences, especially literature and philosophy, medicine and the neurosciences, and is producing a multi-volume history of distributed cognition from the Greeks to the present time.<ref>[http://www.ed.ac.uk/history-classics-archaeology/classics/news-events/news-and-events-archive/news-and-events-2014/research-award-announced]</ref> Rousseau’s contribution lies primarily in the historical era of the Enlightenment, and follows on from his decades’ long commitment to interdisciplinary scholarship covering literature and the sciences, and literature and medicine especially as formulated in the current Medical Humanities.<ref>[https://muse.jhu.edu/article/376949/summary] and [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4917740-enlightenment-borders]</ref> In 2010 - 2012 Rousseau was the presenter of the [[Wellcome Collection]] Event Series in London called 'Tell It To Your Doctor'.<ref>[http://www.wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/events/tell-it-to-your-doctor-2.aspx]</ref>


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George Rousseau
Born
George Sebastian Rousseau

1941 (age 82–83)
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
NationalityAmerican, British
Alma materAmherst College
Princeton University
OccupationProfessor
OrganizationUniversity of Oxford
Known forCultural and intellectual history and literature
PartnerJohn Francis Sturley (landscape gardener)

Professor George Sebastian Rousseau (born February 23, 1941)[1] is an American cultural historian resident in the United Kingdom.

Early life and education

He was educated at Amherst College and Princeton University where he obtained his doctorate.

Academic career

From 1966 to 1968 he was a member of the English Faculty at Harvard University, before moving to a professorship at UCLA, and later to the Regius Chair of English at Aberdeen University in Aberdeen, Scotland.[2] He is a frequent contributor to newspapers and magazines.[3] Since then he has been attached to the History Faculty at Oxford University in Oxford, England where was the Co-Director of the Centre for the History of Childhood from 2003 - 2013.[4] In Oxford he continues to work with historians on the intellectual origins of modern Western culture, especially through the use of interdisciplinary methodologies.[5]


Rousseau is a cultural historian [6] who works in the interface of literature and medicine, and emphasizes the relevance of imaginative materials - literature, especially diaries and biography, art and architecture, music - for the public understanding of medicine, past and present.[7] Rousseau is an ongoing member of the Core Team of the Norwegian Research Group in Literature and Science, and, from 2016-2020, will be Samkul Visiting Professor of the Humanities at the University of Bergen, Norway, funded by the Norwegian Research Council.[8] The Samkul Award made by the Norwegian Research Council for the period 2016-2020 applies Rousseau's theories of interdisciplinarity to concepts of late style, societies in late development, late Western Capitalism and notions of lateness at large,[9] and endorses the historical and contextual methodologies he has been advocating for five decades in the study of literature and other disciplines.[10] He is also an executive member of the Edinburgh History of Distributed Cognition project team, sponsored by the Edinburgh Centre for Epistemology, Mind and Normativity and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.[11] The Edinburgh project brings together scholars in the humanities and sciences, especially literature and philosophy, medicine and the neurosciences, and is producing a multi-volume history of distributed cognition from the Greeks to the present time.[12] Rousseau’s contribution lies primarily in the historical era of the Enlightenment, and follows on from his decades’ long commitment to interdisciplinary scholarship covering literature and the sciences, and literature and medicine especially as formulated in the current Medical Humanities.[13] In 2010 - 2012 Rousseau was the presenter of the Wellcome Collection Event Series in London called 'Tell It To Your Doctor'.[14]

Honours

He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS). He was awarded an honorary doctorate honoris causa on 24 May 2007 by the University of Bucharest, Romania.[15]

Works


References

  1. ^ [1]
  2. ^ [2]
  3. ^ [3]
  4. ^ [4]
  5. ^ [5]
  6. ^ Raymond Stephanson, 'G. S. Rousseau as Cultural Historian', University of Toronto Quarterly 62(3) (1993): 388-400; Simon Richter, 'On the Threshold: G. S. Rousseau and the Discourses of Then and Now', The Eighteenth Century Theory and Interpretation 34 (Spring 1993): 85-95; for Rousseau's work on the human nervous system and its cultural manifestations over time see [6]; Neil Vickers, 'Literary History and the History of Neurology', History of Psychiatry 22 (December 2011): 498: 'George Rousseau's work on the transmission of neurological ideas into the literary culture of the eighteenth century ... remains the essential reference-point in English studies for all attempts to map the cultural elaboration of medical thought. In the early 1970s, Rousseau put forward the novel thesis - now universally accepted - that the cult of sensibility that was so crucial for the rise of the novel in the eighteenth century was predicated on a series of neurological experiments carried out by the Oxford physician Thomas Willis in the late seventeenth century. One of the most impressive aspects of Rousseau's work was the sheer scale of his engagement with countervailing evidence: there is no better scholar of the history of scepticism about eighteenth-century doctrines of sensibility than George Rousseau.'
  7. ^ [7] and [8]
  8. ^ [9] and [10] and [11] and [12]
  9. ^ [13]
  10. ^ For the award grant and its methodologies see [14]
  11. ^ [15] and [16]
  12. ^ [17]
  13. ^ [18] and [19]
  14. ^ [20]
  15. ^ [21]
  16. ^ The TLS reviewer of this book, Slavic scholar Caryll Emerson, explained it as a new type of life-writing memoir whose blended genre of biography and memoir rivalled its contents about Rachmaninoff's music and its particular version of Russian nostalgia [22] and [23]]
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