Dr Lucian Robinson

Position

Stipendiary Lecturer in History

Qualifications

BA (Oxon) MPhil PhD (Cantab)

Academic positions

Stipendiary Lecturer in History, Brasenose College

Academic background and previous positions

I read history at Oxford, and I have a PhD from the University of Cambridge. Prior to coming to Brasenose, I was a Stipendiary Lecturer in History at Lady Margaret Hall from 2022-2024. I’ve also taught history as a fixed-term Lecturer in Modern European History at Cardiff University and as a Teaching Fellow at Queen Mary University of London.

Undergraduate teaching areas

I teach eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European history, alongside papers on historiography, Tocqueville and approaches to history.

Research interests

I’m a historian of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France. My research focuses on historiography, the history of philosophy and the history of political thought in this period. I'm especially interested in the philosophical formation of early nineteenth-century French liberalism and eclecticism, and the work of Victor Cousin, François Guizot, Germaine de Staël, Jean Charles Léonard Simonde de Sismondi, Benjamin Constant, Maine de Biran and Théodore Jouffroy. I also work on the reception of German idealist philosophy and Scottish common sense philosophy in nineteenth-century France.

Selected publications

‘Germaine de Staël, Kant and the question of religion in De l’Allemagne’, Travaux et recherches de l’Institut Benjamin Constant (forthcoming).

‘Accounts of early Christian history in the thought of François Guizot, Benjamin Constant and Madame de Staël 1800-c.1833’, History of European Ideas 43 (2017), 628-648.

Review of Tocqueville, Democracy and Religion by Alan S. Kahan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), Times Literary Supplement, 5 August 2016, 32.

Email

lucian.robinson@bnc.ox.ac.uk