I research the ways that people argued about ideas and politics in the past.

A cultural historian of nineteenth century Britain and America, I am interested in how debates about speaking and education from this period can inform contemporary policy issues.

You can read my publications at www.tomfwright.academia.edu.

Experience

  • 2024–present
    Associate Professor in Rhetoric, University of Sussex

Education

  • 2010 
    University of Cambridge , English / American History
  • 2004 
    Harvard University, Kennedy Scholarship in American History

Contact Tom for

  • General
  • Media request
  • Speaking request
  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision