Emrys D. Jones

Emrys D. Jones is Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture
at King's College London. Before joining KCL in 2016, he lectured for six
years at the University of Greenwich. He studied at the Universities of Oxford
and Cambridge, completing his PhD at the latter on the topic of eighteenth-
century friendship and political identity. This was likewise the focus of his
first monograph, Friendship and Allegiance in Eighteenth-Century Literature
(Palgrave, 2013). He has published widely on representations of sociability in
eighteenth-century poetry and prose, and he also specialises in the
development of celebrity culture throughout the period. With Victoria Joule,
he co-edited Intimacy and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Literary Culture
(Palgrave, 2018). He has been closely involved with GIS Sociabilités and with
the planning of the DIGITENS project since 2014. He is co-editor of the
journal Literature and History, and reviews editor for the Journal for
Eighteenth-Century Studies. Alongside these roles, he maintains an interest in
the representation of eighteenth-century culture in contemporary film and
television, a theme explored through his ongoing podcast, Pop Enlightenments.