Dr Richard Coulton
Richard Coulton, BA (Oxon), MA, PhD (London), completed his doctoral studies in the Department of English at Queen Mary, University of London. Since then he has lectured in English Literature at a number of institutions, including Queen Mary. Dr Coulton's principal research interests lie in the literature and culture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and more particularly in discourses of landscape, knowledge, science, and horticulture. He has recently completed a journal article on the early-eighteenth-century satirist William King; whilst current research projects include an essay on early-modern nursery gardens, and another on John Philips's georgic poem Cyder (1708).