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William Eliot Smith Professor of History in Arts & Sciences
Expertise: 17th century British history, 17th-century English Revolution, 17th century literature and history, English republic, early modern Britain, 17th-century England, writing and political engagement in 17th century England, 17th century British poet and politician Andrew Marvell, English republican experiment of the 1650s, Tudor-Stuart period of British history, English politics and society in the 17th century Bio:
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Additional Background: Derek M. Hirst, Ph.D., Washington University's William Eliot Smith Professor of History in Arts & Sciences, joined the Department of History in 1975 and was named chair in 1998. A native of the small town of Ventnor on England's Isle of Wight, Hirst attended one of the country's more prestigious and academically challenging "prep" schools. At age 14, he was reading John Locke and launching his first explorations of 17th-century history. His academic success led to a scholarship to Cambridge University, where he studied under Sir John Plumb, a leading British historian and former graduate adviser to Hirst's secondary school history teacher. Hirst achieved the top-ranked undergraduate degree in history at Cambridge in 1969 and earned a doctoral degree from there in 1974. He was a fellow at Cambridge's Trinity Hall from 1971-75; a National Endowment for the Humanities Folger Library Senior Fellow in 1979; and a Guggenheim Fellow at Cambridge from 1981-82. Among his recent publications are "Time, Texts and the Pursuit of British Identities," in British Identities in English Renaissance Literature (Cambridge, 2002) and "Literature and National Identity, 1640-1660," in The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2002). With Steven Zwicker, Ph.D., the Stanley Elkin Professor in the Humanities in Arts & Sciences, Hirst wrote a major essay on the politics and sexual identity of the poet Andrew Marvell. Hirst and Zwicker have been working on joint research and writing projects for the last 20 years. From Hirst's faculty page, downloaded 11/03: Experience: Fellow, Trinity Hall, Cambridge 1971-75; Director of Studies in History, 1974-75 / Assistant professor to professor, Washington University 1975-; Chair, History Department, 1998- / Clark Lecturer, University of California, Los Angeles, 1983 / Co-director, Folger Institute seminar 1991 National Endowment for the Humanities senior fellow, Folger Library, 1979 / Guggenheim fellow, 1981-82 / Visiting senior research fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, 1981-82 Adams Prize Committee, American Historical Association 1999-2003/ Snow Prize Committee, Conference on British Studies 1998-2002/ Editor, Early Modern Britain Section, Guide to Historical Literature, American Historical Association, 1994 / Associate Editor for 1649-1669, New DNB, Oxford, forthcoming Council of Students in Arts and Sciences Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1985 / Distinguished Graduate Mentor Recognition, Washington University Graduate Council 2003 / Select Books * The Representative of the People? Voters and Voting in England Under the Early Stuarts, Cambridge, 1975 * Authority and Conflict: England 1603-1658, Harvard, 1986 * England In Conflict, 1603-1660: Kingdom, Community, Commonwealth, Arnold/Oxford UP, 1999 * Co-editor Writing and Political Engagement in 17th-Century England, Cambridge, 2000 Select Journal Articles * "The Defection of Sir Edward Dering, 1640-1641," Historical Journal, June, 1972 * "Elections and the Privileges of the House of Commons in the Early 17th Century: Confrontation or Compromise?" Historical Journal, December 1975 * "The 17th Century Freeholder and the Statistician: A Case of Terminological Confusion," Economic History Review, May 1976 * "The Privy Council and Problems of Enforcement in the 1620s," Journal of British Studies, Fall 1978 * "Court, Country, and Politics before 1629," in Faction and Parliament: Essays On Early Stuart History, ed. K. Sharpe, Oxford, 1978; London, 1985 * "Unanimity in the Commons, Aristocratic Intrigues, and the Origins of the English Civil War," Journal of Modern History, March 1978 * "Parliament, Law and War in the 1620's," Historical Journal, June 1980 * Co-author, "Rhetoric and Disguise: Political Language and Political Argument in Absalom and Achitophel," Journal of British Studies, Fall 1981 * "Revisionism Revised: The Place of Principle," Past and Present, August 1981 * "That Sober Liberty: Marvell's Cromwell in 1654," in The Golden and the Brazen World, ed. J. Wallace, California, 1985 * "The Conciliatoriness of the Cavalier House of Commons Reconsidered," Parliamentary History, November 1987 * "Concord and Discord in Richard Cromwell's House of Commons," English Historical Review, April 1988 * "The Failure of National Reformation in the 1650s," Proceedings, Folger Institute for the Study of British Political Thought, 1990 * "Voting in Hertford, 1679-1721," Computing in History Yearbook, 1989 * "The Lord Protector," in Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution, ed. J. Morrill, Longmans, 1990 * "The Political Context of Literature in the 1650s," The Seventeenth Century, 1990 * "Liberty, Revolution and Beyond," in Parliament and Liberty from the Reign of Elizabeth to the Civil War, ed. J.H. Hexter, Stanford, 1991 * "Failure of Godly Rule in the English Republic," Past and Present, August 1991 * Co-author, "High Summer at Nunappleton, 1651: Andrew Marvell and Lord Fairfax's Occasions," Historical Journal, 1993 * "The Rupturing of the Cromwellian Alliance," English Historical Review, 1993 * "The English Republic and the Meaning of Britain," Journal of Modern History, 1994 * "Milton and the Drama of Justice," in The Theatrical City, eds. D. Bevington, D. Smith and R.Strier, Cambridge, 1995 * "British Isles 1450-1800," AHA Guide to Historical Literature Oxford, 1995 * "Locating the 1650s in England's 17th Century," History, 1996 * Co-author, "Andrew Marvell and the Toils of Patriarchy: Fatherhood, Longing and the Body Politic," ELH, 1999 * "Samuel Parker, Andrew Marvell and Political Culture, 1667-1673," in Writing and Political Engagement, eds. Hirst and Strier * "Time, Texts and the Pursuit of British Identities," in British Identities in English Renaissance Literature, eds. David Baker and Willy Maley, Cambridge, 2002 * "Literature and National Identity, 1640-1660," in The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature, eds. D. Loewenstein and Janelle Mueller, Cambridge University Press, 2002 * "Remembering a Hero: Lucy Hutchinson's Memoirs of her Husband," English Historical Review forthcoming * 'Reading the Royal Romance: Or, Intimacy in a King's Cabinet,' in The Seventeenth Century forthcoming Currently in Progress * England Unkinged: the republican years, 1649-1660 / Relations of history and literature in mid-17th-century England / Private and public in 17th-century England |
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