Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre   King’s College Cambridge CB1 2ST jr525@cam.ac.uk

Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre is Director of Studies and Assistant Tutor in History at King's College.  She holds a BSFS in international history from Georgetown University and an MA and PhD in history from Queen's University, Belfast, where she was supervised by S. J. Connolly. Before coming to Cambridge she was Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Exeter.

Research Interests

Jennifer’s published research has focused on the Irish in the British Empire, particularly on connections between nationalists in Ireland and India in the late nineteenth century. Her first book, Cosmopolitan Nationalism in the Victorian Empire, a biography of the Irish politician Alfred Webb, explains how Irish and Indian nationalists met in late-Victorian London and pursued a multi-cultural politics of cooperation. The monograph contextualises these events in the history of Irish nationalism and also contributes to our understanding of the 'Empire at home' and the history of multicultural Britain.

She recently completed a critical edition of the political and travel memoir of J.F.X. O’Brien, a nineteenth-century Irish nationalist, and has also published on the history of printing and print culture.

Jennifer is now working on a major project on social activism and associational culture in late-Victorian London. This research, which has received funding from the British Academy, will document and analyse how individuals from British colonies used clubs and societies to gain a socio-political foothold in Britain.

Principal Publications

Editor, For the Liberty of Ireland at Home and Abroad: the Autobiography of J .F. X. O’Brien. Classics in Irish History Series, University College Dublin Press, September 2010. ISBN 978-1-904558-99-6.

Cosmopolitan Nationalism in the Victorian Empire: Ireland, India and the Politics of Alfred Webb. Monograph for the Cambridge Imperial and Post-colonial Studies Series, Palgrave MacMillan, August 2009. 229pp, ISBN 978-0-230-22085-0.

Jennifer M. Regan. ‘“We could be of service to other suffering people”: Representations of India in the Irish Nationalist Press, 1857-1887.’ Victorian Periodicals Review, vol. 41, no. 1, Spring 2008, pp 61-77.

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