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Daniel Roberts serves as Associate Professor (Reader) in the Department of English within Queen's University Belfast's School of Arts, English and Languages, specializing in the intersections of imperial history and literary production. His academic profile spans editorial scholarship, critical theory, and transnational literary studies, with a pronounced focus on Britain's colonial engagements in India and Ireland.
Roberts' research centers on Empire, Romantic Period Literature, and Indian Literature in English, examining how eighteenth-century periodicals and Romantic-era texts negotiated imperial ideologies. His work reveals persistent patterns in colonial discourse through meticulous analysis of orientalist frameworks, East India Company narratives, and postcolonial reconfigurations of canonical works. Key methodological approaches include textual editing, historical contextualization, and interdisciplinary frameworks bridging literary studies with imperial history.
His publication trajectory demonstrates sustained engagement with De Quincey's legacy, Southey's orientalist poetics, and Ireland's complex imperial entanglements. Recent outputs increasingly address global eighteenth-century networks, particularly Britain-India-China commodity flows and their aesthetic representations, while maintaining core commitments to periodical studies and Romantic-era print culture.
Scientific recognition includes:
- British Academy Award for Robert Southey Poetical Works (2003)
- British Academy Award for Thomas De Quincey Works (2002)
- AHRB Leave Scheme award (2002)
- College Medal for English (1985)
- Creative Writing First Prize at IIT Madras (1984)
Roberts actively supervises doctoral research with four completed students to date, welcoming new PhD candidates in eighteenth-century periodicals, literature and empire, and Indian Literature in English. His funded projects include the critical edition of Charles Johnston's 'Arsaces' (2011-2012) and 'Literature of Our Times' (2006-2007), reflecting dual commitments to historical recovery and contemporary literary analysis. Current activities include organizing international conferences on imperial connections and contributing to major handbooks on Romanticism and global literary studies.
