Dr Kate Teltscher

 

Job Title: Reader (English Literature) Telephone: +44 (0)20 8392 3339

Room: Fincham 302
Office hours: Wednesday 1-2pm, Thursdays 12.30-2.30pm, Fridays 1-2pm.

Brief Biography

I studied for my BA at the University of York, and for my D.Phil. at the University of Oxford. I was awarded a North Senior Scholarship at St. John's College for three years.

Research Interests

My research interests centre on colonial writing and travel writing, particularly seventeenth-and eighteenth-century British writing on India and Tibet. I welcome PhD applicants, especially those interested in writing on India, colonial discourse and travel writing.

Teaching Interests

I teach undergraduate courses on colonial and postcolonial writing, Indian Writing in English, and eighteenth-century literature. I also teach on the Women, Gender and Writing MA, and on the National and International Literatures in English (NILE) MA programme at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London.

Publications

(2006) The High Road to China: George Bogle, the Panchen Lama and the First British Expedition to Tibet, London: Bloomsbury.

(2004) Writing Home and Crossing Cultures: George Bogle in Bengal and Tibet, 1770-1775, A New Imperial History: Culture, Identity and Modernity in Britain and the Empire 1660-1840, ed. Kathleen Wilson, 281-296.

(2003) The Lama and the Scotsman: George Bogle in Bhutan and Tibet, 1774-1775, The Global Eighteenth Century, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, Ed. Felicity A. Nussbaum, 151-164.

(2002) India/Calcutta: city of palaces and dreadful night, The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Eds. Peter Hulme and Tim Youngs, 191-206.

(2000) 'Maidenly and well nigh effeminate': Constructions of Hindu Masculinity and Religion in Seventeenth-Century English Texts, Postcolonial Studies, 3: 2, 159-170.

(2000) The Shampooing Surgeon and the Persian Prince: Two Indians in Early Nineteenth-century Britain, Interventions, 2: 3, 409-423.

(1999) 'The Sentimental Ambassador: The letters of George Bogle from Bengal, Bhutan and Tibet, 1770-1781', in Epistolary Selves: Letters and Letter-writers 1600-1945, ed. Rebecca Earle, Aldershot: Ashgate.

(1996) 'The Fearful Name of the Black Hole': Fashioning an Imperial Myth, Writing India, 1757-1990 ed. B. Moore-Gilbert, Manchester: Manchester University Press.

(1995) India Inscribed: European and British Writing on India, 1600-1800, Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Qualification Details

BA Hons. First Class. English & Related Literature, University of York, 1985.

D.Phil., University of Oxford, 1992.

Consultancy Expertise

Contributor to documentaries on Channel 4 and BBC Radio 4.
Contributor to the Oxford DNB. Reader for Yale University Press, Routledge, Broadview Press, Studies in Travel Writing, Interventions, Journal of the History of Ideas.