Dr Imogen Knox (she/her)

I am a historian of early modern Britain, specialising in gender and emotion.

My doctoral work explored the experience of being suicidal in early modern Britain. I am currently reworking this project for publication as a monograph. My work has been published with Cultural and Social History and Gender & History. 

My current project investigates the role of masculinity and emotion in the commision of crime in seventeenth and eighteenth century England. I am interested in how ideas about the appropriate expression of gender, particularly in relation to emotion, shaped the behaviour and self-fashioning of criminal men in the early modern period.

I am an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and an Advance HE Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence winner.

Biography

I completed my PhD at the University of Warwick in 2024, supervised by Professor Peter Marshall and Dr Naomi Pullin. During my PhD I spent two months as a Visiting Fellow at Technische Universität Dresden. Following my doctoral work I was a John Rylands Libary Early Career Fellow at the University of Manchester. I have also worked with the ESRC at the University of Warwick. I joined Exeter in 2025 as lecturer in early modern history.