Faculty Podcast (no. 5): Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre

Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre, Assistant Professor of History at Trinity College, sits down with Kevin MacDermott on this episode of the Trinity Faculty Profile podcast series. Follow @FacultyProfile on Twitter 00:00 – 6:30 – NFL Europe, Cultural Hybridity, and hard-to pronounce names 6:30 – 11:45 – Belfast and Modern Ireland 11:45 – 17:40 – Alfred Webb, J.F.X. O’Brien, and Irish Republicanism 17:40 – 28:00 – Learning in Galway and Teaching at Cambridge 28:00 – 32:40 – Imperial Wine, Production of Wine for the Empire 32:40 – End – Downton Abbey in Historical Context Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre is a historian of modern Britain, Ireland and the British Empire. She holds a PhD from Queen’s University Belfast and has taught at the University of Exeter, the American University of Paris and the University of Cambridge, where she was a fellow, the Director of Studies in History and the Assistant Tutor at King’s College. She is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Regan-Lefebvre is currently writing a monograph provisionally entitled 'Imperial Wine: The British Empire and the Making of the New World' which examines the growth of wine industries in (former) British colonies. She is analysing the relationship between production in the colonies and consumption in the metropole and is interested in how the British domestic wine market changed over time, how it shaped production of particular styles of wine, and whether imperial policies stimulated New World production. Her published research has focused on the Irish in the British Empire, particularly on connections between Ireland and India in the nineteenth century. She is the author of a monograph, Cosmopolitan Nationalism in the Victorian Empire, which explores collaboration between Irish and Indian nationalists in late-Victorian London and contributes to the literature on the 'Empire at home'. She also published the first critical edition of the autobiography of the Irish fenian J.F.X. O'Brien, which recounts his travels in France, New Orleans and the Caribbean in the 19th century.