Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor is Professor of Humanities at Queen Mary and a specialist in British intellectual and cultural history, feminist ideas and movements, and histories and theories of subjectivity. Her publications include Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century (1983;1993, 2015); Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination (2003); Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850 (edited with Sarah Knott, 2005), On Kindness (written with Adam Phillips, 2009), History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past (edited with Sally Alexander, 2012) and The Last Asylum (2014). She is currently directing a four-year multidisciplinary research project on western solitude, funded by the Wellcome Trust, and completing an intellectual history of solitude in Enlightenment Britain.