James Everest

• BA (Hons) – Cambridge (2007)
• MRes – Queen Mary, University of London (2011)
• PhD – UCL (2017)

Before joining LANS, I was a teaching associate in the Department of Arts and Sciences (BASc) at UCL and also in the Department of English at Queen Mary, University of London. I have been and am still a researcher on a project on the post-war life of Otto Wächter, the Nazi Governor of Galicia (now western Ukraine). The research on this project formed the basis for the BBC Radio 4 documentary Intrigue: The Ratline and will appear in Philippe Sands’s forthcoming book A Death in the Vatican. After an undergraduate degree in languages, I spent three years working in social policy communication, before gaining a completing degree in English at Queen Mary, University of London, and a PhD in History at UCL. I have published journal articles on Francis Bacon’s method and his work on light and on the Shakespeare scholar Harold Jenkins’s copy of a radical collection of essays, Alternative Shakespeares.

I facilitate the delivery of the LANS core first- and second-year modules:

• From Research to Policy I and II
• Interdisciplinarity I and II

I also supervise fourth-year students taking an interdisciplinary independent research project.

• Seventeenth-century intellectual history
• The impact of ‘theory’ on the discipline of English
• The ‘ratline’ by which former members of the Nazi regime escaped prosecution