Stuart Semmel
Senior Lecturer
(Leave of absence, Spring 2012)
Office: 35 Broadway, Rm 204
Phone: (203) 432-6675
Email: stuart.semmel@yale.edu
Stuart Semmel teaches British history since the eighteenth century, giving particular attention to political, cultural, and intellectual history. He received his A.B. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. His book Napoleon and the British (Yale, 2004), shortlisted for the Longman/History Today Book of the Year prize, considers how Napoleon Bonaparte was used in British political argument and political culture. He has published articles on subjects including tourism and radical politics. His current book project examines an early nineteenth-century British woman’s career as a freelance propagandist.
Before coming to Yale, Semmel was an Associate Professor at the University of Delaware. He has also taught at Harvard, Penn, and American University, and has been a fellow at the National Humanities Center and the Penn Humanities Forum. In addition to courses in the History department, he teaches in Directed Studies (History and Politics).
