John Gallagher is Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Leeds, and prior to this, a Research Fellow in History at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. His research is into questions of language, travel, migration, education, and identity in early modern Britain and Europe.

His first book, Learning Languages in Early Modern England, will be published by Oxford University Press in spring 2019. His articles have appeared in Renaissance Quarterly and The Italianist annd are forthcoming in Huntington Library Quarterly, Renaissance Studies, and Past & Present.

His current research interests include urban multilingualism, teaching & learning in early modern England, and new histories of orality. He is also working on a new project on migration and multilingualism in early modern England.

John Gallagher is invited by Jean Boutier.

Conferences

• 1 April 2019, 14:00-16:00, La Vieille Charité, salle B, Marseille

Migrants and multilingualism in early modern England

• 1 April 2019, 16:00-18:00, La Vieille Charité, salle B, Marseille

'A conversable knowledge': learning languages in early modern England

• 24 April 2019, 10:00-12:00, La Vieille Charité, salle B, Marseille

Another 'educational revolution'? Rethinking education in early modern England

• 24 April 2019, 10:00-12:00, AMSE, bâtiment Bernard Du Bois, Marseille

Language-learning and orality in early modern Mediterranean captivity narratives

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