Dr Andreas Mueller

Senior Lecturer in English

Institute of Humanities & Creative Arts

Contact Details

email: a.mueller@worc.ac.uk

tel: 01905 85 5294

Andreas Mueller joined the University of Worcester in 2004. He teaches Early Modern English Literature and is a Co-Director of the Institute’s Early Modern Research Group.

Teaching & Research

Andreas Mueller’s teaching and research interests cover the early modern period, specifically the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. While he teaches a broad range of modules at under- and postgraduate levels, Andreas is responsible for specialist modules in Elizabethan and Jacobean poetry, Civil War and Restoration literature, and eighteenth-century fiction and verse. In addition, he regularly teaches literature theory and the writing skills components of the English pathway.

Andreas has undertaken extensive research on Daniel Defoe: his doctoral thesis considers Defoe’s political rhetoric in a number of press campaigns, he has published a monograph on Defoe’s verse, and he has recently edited and contributed to an essay collection concerned with Defoe’s non-fictional writings. Andreas is currently embarking on a new research project concerned with the eighteenth-century Bishop of Worcester, Richard Hurd, and his private library at Hartlebury Castle, Worcestershire. This research will be published in the form of a critical biography of Hurd (co-authored with Dr Stephen Gregg, Bath Spa University), which is under contract with Bucknell University Press.

Professional Bodies

Andreas is the Director of the Defoe Society (www.defoesociety.org). He is also a member of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

Publications

Monographs and edited collections

A Critical Study of Daniel Defoe’s Verse (Lampeter & Lewiston, NY: Mellen Press, 2010)

Positioning Daniel Defoe’s Non-Fiction: Form, Function, Genre [edited with Aino Mäkikalli] (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011)

Richard Hurd’s Library: Books, Reading, and the Culture of Letters in the Eighteenth Century (under contract with Bucknell University Press)

Articles and Book Chapters

‘“One of the greatest puzzles in Defoe bibliography”: John Toland, Daniel Defoe and ennobling foreigners.’ in K. Kincade et al (eds), New Approaches to Daniel Defoe (AMS Press, forthcoming 2011)

‘Daniel Defoe’s The Family Instructor, the Schism Act and Jacobite Unrest: The Conduct Book as a Political Act.’ in A. Mueller & A. Mäkikalli eds Positioning Daniel Defoe’s Non-Fiction: Form, Function, Genre (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011)

‘Shakespeare’s Country Opposition: Titus Andronicus in the early eighteenth century’, Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate 15:1-3 (2007), pp. 97-126

‘Daniel Defoe, Master of Genres’, Worcester Papers in English & Cultural Studies, No.3 (2005), pp.33-47.

‘The unfashionable century: student and teacher resistance to eighteenth-century literature,’ in M. Lorenzo Modia (ed) All in All: A Plural View of our Teaching and Learning (La Coruna: La Coruna UP/British Council, 2005), pp.97-106.

External Responsibilities