Ryan Blank
PhD candidate in Modern British History
Hailing from California, Ryan moved to Cambridge for the weather and the food. Ryan completed his undergraduate in European Studies at Brigham Young University where he specialised in French and British history and politics. He went on to complete an MPhil in Modern British History at St Edmund's, Cambridge; an MSt in Ecclesiastical History and a PGCE at Oriel, Oxford; and is currently in the throes of doctoral research.
My PhD thesis is titled Elite Tractarian Male Friendships, Intimacies, and Identities in Nineteenth-Century England and is being supervised by Dr Jeremy Morris. This builds on work began during my MPhil on Tractarian masculinities in nineteenth century public schools and continued during my MSt research which looked at the way Tractarian identities were constructed in and around references to the past. I am particularly interested in the history of emotions, intimacies, masculinities, and religion in 18th-19th century Britain.
Ryan is approved to supervise undergraduates in Part I and is currently seeking students for Modern British Political History 1689-1889, Paper 5.
A Selection of Talks and Presentations:
• 2019 St Athanasius Reading Group, Oxford: Against the Postmodernists and Deconstructivists, John Henry Newman, C. S. Lewis, and St Athanasius
• 2019-20 Ecclesiastical History Society Summer Conference, Tractarian Usages of the Saxon Past: Re-imagining the Victorian Church in the Shadow of the Saxon Church, St Wilfrid and St Wulfstan
• 2019 Tracts for the Times Reading Group: Liturgy and the Tracts for the Times
• 2019 Hilary Term Oriel Talks: Tractarian Usages of the Saxon Past: Projecting Victorian church politics on an imagined past
• 2018-19 Ecclesiastical History Society Summer Conference, How ‘conservative’ were Tractarian attitudes towards the Royal Supremacy?
• 2018 Ecclesiastical History Postgraduate Colloquium: Constructing the Gentleman Saint at Winchester
• 2017-18 Ecclesiastical History Society Winter Conference, Schoolboy Confirmations and Tractarian Masculinities, circa 1835-66
• 2017 Michaelmas Term Oriel Talks, The Gentleman Saint: developing Tractarian manhood at Winchester
A Selection of Reading Groups, Seminars, and Conferences:
• Lent Term 2021 Convenor of Joseph Butler Reading Group in 18th and 19th-Century Christian Ethics, After Deconstruction: Passions, Friendship, and Ethos
• Lent Term 2021 Convenor and Chair of the Edmund Wood Ecclesiastical History Seminar: 19th-Century Anglicanism and the University: Ethos, Patristics, and the Experience of Christianity
• 6 June 2019 Co-Convenor of Tractarian Frame of Mind: The Oxford Movement and the Tracts for the Times Conference
• Hillary 2019 Co-Convenor of Tracts for the Times Reading Group, an Oriel College and University of Oxford Theology Faculty sponsored lecture and discussion series
• 2019 St Athanasius Reading Group, Oxford: Against the Postmodernists and Deconstructivists, John Henry Newman, C. S. Lewis, and St Athanasius
• 2019-20 Ecclesiastical History Society Summer Conference, Tractarian Usages of the Saxon Past: Re-imagining the Victorian Church in the Shadow of the Saxon Church, St Wilfrid and St Wulfstan
• 2019 Tracts for the Times Reading Group: Liturgy and the Tracts for the Times
• 2019 Hilary Term Oriel Talks: Tractarian Usages of the Saxon Past: Projecting Victorian church politics on an imagined past
• 2018-19 Ecclesiastical History Society Summer Conference, How ‘conservative’ were Tractarian attitudes towards the Royal Supremacy?
• 2018 Ecclesiastical History Postgraduate Colloquium: Constructing the Gentleman Saint at Winchester
• 2017-18 Ecclesiastical History Society Winter Conference, Schoolboy Confirmations and Tractarian Masculinities, circa 1835-66
• 2017 Michaelmas Term Oriel Talks, The Gentleman Saint: developing Tractarian manhood at Winchester
A Selection of Reading Groups, Seminars, and Conferences:
• Lent Term 2021 Convenor of Joseph Butler Reading Group in 18th and 19th-Century Christian Ethics, After Deconstruction: Passions, Friendship, and Ethos
• Lent Term 2021 Convenor and Chair of the Edmund Wood Ecclesiastical History Seminar: 19th-Century Anglicanism and the University: Ethos, Patristics, and the Experience of Christianity
• 6 June 2019 Co-Convenor of Tractarian Frame of Mind: The Oxford Movement and the Tracts for the Times Conference
• Hillary 2019 Co-Convenor of Tracts for the Times Reading Group, an Oriel College and University of Oxford Theology Faculty sponsored lecture and discussion series
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