Research areas
I began my PhD in September 2023, under the joint supervision of Professor Andrew Pettegree and Dr Arthur der Weduwen. My research focuses on printed news media in the Baltic Sea region during the seventeenth century, encompassing weekly newspapers, ordinances issued by state and local authorities, and news pamphlets and broadsheets. I seek to understand how the dynamic geopolitics of the Baltic Sea impacted the reporting of news across the region. I pay particular attention to the imperial dimensions at play, and break new ground by employing a comparative, transnational perspective, in a field that has traditionally been dominated by national approaches. My research is funded by the St Andrews School of History.
My broader interests include the Baltic and Nordic book trades, particularly the relationship between centres and peripheries, and the role of authorities and institutions in producing and publishing printed media.
I have been based in St Andrews since arriving for my undergraduate degree in Modern History from 2016-2020, after which I completed an MLitt in Book History, receiving a distinction. I have worked alongside the Universal Short Title Catalogue since 2019, and co-organised its 2023 annual conference on the theme of Early Modern Publishers. I have also been a teaching assistant on the sub-honours undergraduate module MO1007: The Early Modern Western World, in 2022 and 2023.
Selected publications
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Open access
A Nordic press: the development of printing in Scandinavia and the Baltic states before 1700 from a European perspective
der Weduwen, A. & Cullen, B., 22 Nov 2022, In: Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture. 13, 1, p. 1-30 30 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review