Email: m.bundock@ucl.ac.uk
Michael Bundock is an Honorary Research Associate in the MyAV·¶ English Department. He was educated at the University of Dundee (LLB) and MyAV·¶ (LLM) and is a barrister.Â
He has research interests in the literature of the long eighteenth century (especially Samuel Johnson), the social and legal history of the period, and law and literature.
He is a director of Dr Johnsonâs House Trust and Chair of the Johnson Society of London.
Recent publications
âP°ùŸ±łŸ±đâ, The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, ed. Jack Lynch (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022)
"A neutral being between the sexes": debating Johnson's feminism', Kate Chisholm and Michael Bundock, The Johnson Society Transactions 2021, pp. 24-40
â âA little charityâ: Dr Johnson and his householdâ, The Book Collector, Vol 69 No 3 (Autumn 2020), pp. 395-404
âThe slave and the lawyers: Francis Barber, James Boswell and John Hawkinsâ in Britainâs Black Past, ed. Gretchen H. Gerzina (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020), pp. 27-43
âFrom Somerset to Scotland: Samuel Johnson on slaveryâ, The New Rambler 2017-2018, Ser. F No XXI (2020), pp. 25-33
â âTo put you in mind of Johnsonâ: afterlives in London and Lichfieldâ, The Transactions of the Johnson Society 2017, (2018), pp. 12-23
â â Pleased to renew our old acquaintanceâ: James Boswell and Francis Barberâ, The New Rambler 2015-2016, Ser. F No XIX (2018), pp. 53-66
The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Johnsonâs Heir (New Haven and London, 2015, revd edn, 2021: Yale University Press)
âSearching for the invisible man: the images of Francis Barberâ in Editing Lives: Essays in Contemporary Textual and Biographical Studies in Honor of O M Brack, Jr, ed. Jesse G. Swan (Lewisburg, 2014: Bucknell University Press)