Dr Alexander Corrigan (BA (Hons.), MTh, PhD, FHEA, FSA (Scot.))

Teaching Fellow

Biography

Background

A historian of the early modern period, my areas of specialism include religious controversy, apocalyptic thinking, sacred chronology and scapegoating of 'others', especially in the British Isles in the long seventeenth century.

I graduated with a first class degree in history from the Manchester Metropolitan University in 2007. In 2009 I undertook an MTh in Theology in History, having secured a scholarship at the University of Edinburgh's School of Divinity and Graduated with distinction in 2010. I then worked on a PhD, supervised by Professor (now Emerita) Jane E.A. Dawson. After graduating in 2014, I pursued a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) and completed a postgraduate teaching qualification at the Moray House School of Education and Sport. I have taught at the University of Edinburgh since 2011 and at the Open University since 2021.

‘George Mackenzie of Cromartie’s Synopsis Apocalyptica: A New Analysis’, 2023

       https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/sch.2023.0083?journalCode=sch

‘The Mathematics of Polemic in John Napier’s Plaine Discovery’ 2023

       https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-21494-3_4

‘John Napier’s Influence on Seventeenth-Century Apocalyptic Thinking in England’, 2022

       https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14622459.2020.1759203

'Revealing the Plaine Discovery', in The Life and Works of John Napier, 2017

       https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-53282-0_2

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