- Teaching Fellow in Medieval and Early Modern History, University of Warwick
- University of Exeter
Imogen Knox completed her PhD at the University of Warwick. Her doctoral thesis explored the ways people articulated self-destructive desires in the context of affliction by witches, demons, and spirits, providing insight into how individuals conceptualised and negotiated suicidal ideation during a time where the act of suicide was not only criminal, but caused eternal damnation. In 2024-25 she was a Visiting Early Career Research Fellow at the John Rylands Library and Research Institute, University of Manchester, where she embarked on a new project looking at the emotions of criminal men in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. From September 2025 she is Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Exeter.
Experience
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2025–presentLecturer in Early Modern History, University of Exeter
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2024–2025Early Career Fellow, John Rylands Library, University of Manchester
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2020–2024Doctoral Researcher, University of Warwick
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2023–2023Visiting Researcher, Technische Universität Dresden
Education
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2024University of Warwick, PhD in History
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2019University of Exeter, MA History
Publications
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2024Faithful men and false women: Love-suicide in early modern English popular print, Gender & History
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2023Pin-Swallowing and Self-Destruction in Early Modern British and Irish Supernatural Narratives, Journal of Cultural and Social History
Grants and Contracts
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2020Suicide, Self-Harm, and the Supernatural in Britain, 1560-1735
- Role:
- Principal Investigator
- Funding Source:
- Arts and Humanities Research Council
Professional Memberships
- Early Career Member, Royal Historical Society
Contact Imogen for
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- Speaking request
- Consulting / Advising
- Research collaboration
