Rachel Rogers

Rachel Rogers is a Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès, affiliated with the Center for Anglophone Studies (CAS). Her research focuses on British history, particularly 18th and 19th-century political and social movements, radicalism, and transatlantic intellectual exchanges during the revolutionary era.

She earned her doctorate in English in 2012 with a thesis titled Vectors of Revolution: The British Radical Community in Early Republican Paris, 1792-1794. Her fields of interest include British history, political protest, popular and social history, Atlantic revolutions, and the historiography of radical movements. Her research often explores how British radicals interpreted and participated in revolutionary events in France, and how their experiences shaped political discourse in Britain.

Rogers’s recent publications and conference presentations reveal a strong thematic focus on 19th-century British protest movements such as Chartism, Luddism, the Gordon Riots, and the Peterloo Massacre. She also examines the role of translation in radical politics and the conceptual evolution of terms like ‘the commons’. Her work frequently engages with E.P. Thompson’s legacy and the methodology of ‘history from below’.

She serves as an elected member of the CAS laboratory council (2021–2026) and co-leads a research program on ‘Memory crises, rewriting the past’. She is a co-organizer of the Transatlantic Workshop on Intellectual and Political History (ATHIP) and the editorial manager for the ‘British Civilization’ section of the journal Miranda.

Her scientific contributions include books, journal articles, book reviews, and blog posts. Notable works include Friends of the Revolution: The British Radical Community in Early Republican Paris, 1792-1794 (2021) and co-edited volumes on protest movements and the Peterloo Massacre. She has no listed scientific awards.

Rogers advises on academic publications and collaborates with scholars such as Fabrice Bensimon and Alexandra Sippel. She is involved in organizing seminars and special journal issues, and her work is supported by institutional research programs. She maintains an active presence through academic blogging, including her ‘Reading the Riot Act’ series, which discusses key episodes of British protest history.

She is affiliated with research teams and labs such as CAS and ATHIP, which foster transnational dialogue on Anglophone political and intellectual history.