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Samuel Fullerton

Assistant Professor

University of North Texas

Department of History

Email: Samuel.Fullerton@unt.edu

Professional Positions

    Academic - Post-Secondary

  • Lecturer, University of California, Riverside. University of California, Riverside. (2022 - 2024).
  • Adjunct Instructor, University of La Verne. University of La Verne. (2022 - 2022).
  • Postdoctoral Scholar, Vanderbilt University. Vanderbilt University. (2020 - 2021).

Professional Memberships

  • Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies. (March 2014 - Present).
  • North American Conference on British Studies. (November 2013 - Present).
  • American Historical Association. (2013 - Present).

Development Activities

  • Workshop, CLASS WRiting Workshop, CLASS. United States of America. (September 2024 - May 2025).
  • Workshop, University Forum on Teaching and Learning: Generative AI, Faculty Success / CLEAR. United States of America. (September 25, 2024).
  • Workshop, Early Career Workshop II: Organizing Your Week, CLASS. United States of America. (September 20, 2024).
  • Workshop, Early Career Faculty Workshop I: Setting Purpose, UNT College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. Denton,Texas,United States of America. (August 12, 2024).
  • Other (Orientation), New Faculty Orientation, UNT Faculty Success. Denton,Texas,United States of America. (August 7, 2024 - August 8, 2024).

Teaching

Teaching Experience

    University of North Texas

  • HIST 4220 - The Renaissance, 1 course.

Teaching at Other Institutions

  • University of California, Riverside, World History, 1500 – 1900, Spring 2024.
  • University of California, Riverside, The Renaissance, Winter 2024.
  • University of California, Riverside, World History, 1500 – 1900, Winter 2024.
  • University of California, Riverside, World History, 1500 – 1900, Fall 2023.
  • University of California, Riverside, Revolutionary America, Spring 2023.
  • University of California, Riverside, Sexual Politics in Early Modern Europe, Spring 2023.
  • University of California, Riverside, The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Winter 2023.
  • University of California, Riverside, Slander and Libel in Western History, 1500 to the Present, Fall 2022.
  • University of La Verne, Issues in History [introductory historiography course], Spring 2022.
  • University of California, Riverside, The Reformation, Spring 2022.
  • University of California, Riverside, The Renaissance, Spring 2022.
  • Vanderbilt University, Undergraduate Research Seminar: Scandal, Libel, and Sex in Seventeenth-Century England, Spring 2021.
  • Vanderbilt University, Undergraduate Research Seminar: Scandal, Libel, and Sex in Seventeenth-Century England, Fall 2020.

Awards and Honors

  • 2021 Annual Article Prize, Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies. (2022).

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Book

  • Fullerton, S. (2024). Sexual politics in revolutionary England. Manchester University Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.7765/9781526175915

    • Book Review

  • Fullerton, S. (2019). The Solemn League and Covenant of the Three Kingdoms and the Cromwellian Union, 1643–1663. Kirsteen M. MacKenzie. Routledge Research in Early Modern History. London: Routledge, 2018. xii + 210 pp. $149.95.. Renaissance Quarterly. 72 (3) 1082-1084. Cambridge University Press (CUP). http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2019.313

    • Journal Article

  • Fullerton, S. (2024). The “Holy Sister” Anatomized: Religious Polemic and Erotic Writing in England, 1640–1660. The Journal of Modern History. 96 (3) 545-576. University of Chicago Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/731358
  • Fullerton, S. (2023). Licensing libel in seventeenth-century England: John White’s First Century of Scandalous, Malignant Priests in context/s. Other. 96 (273) 331-352. Oxford University Press (OUP). http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hisres/htad002
  • Fullerton, S. (2022). New England in the Royalist Imagination, 1637–89. The English Historical Review. 137 (588) 1346-1376. Oxford University Press (OUP). http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceac213
  • Fullerton, S. (2022). John Pym and Libellous Politics in Early Civil War England. The Historical Journal. 65 (3) 591-611. Cambridge University Press (CUP). http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x21000534
  • Fullerton, S. (2021). Fatal Adulteries: Sexual Politics in the English Revolution. Journal of British Studies. 60 (4) 793-821. Cambridge University Press (CUP). http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2021.62
  • Fullerton, S. (2019). "A Warre of the Pen": The Force on Parliament and English Polemic, 1646–48. Huntington Library Quarterly. 82 (2) 221-247. Project MUSE. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hlq.2019.0013

Presentations Given

    Invited Talk

  • Fullerton, S. (Author & Presenter), Familiar Terms, The Transformation of Libelous Politics in Seventeenth-Century England, Harry Ransom Center, UT Austin, Austin, TX, United States of America. (2023 - 2023).
  • Fullerton, S. (Author & Presenter), Seventeenth-Century British History Seminar, Agnes Pym’s New Horse: Libelous Politics in Early Civil War England, Institute of Historical Research, London, UK (virtual), United Kingdom. (2021 - 2021).
  • Fullerton, S. (Author & Presenter), Sexual Politics in the Revolutionary Atlantic, 1640-1660, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, United States of America. (2019 - 2019).
  • Fullerton, S. (Author & Presenter), “The Impure Synagogue: New England in the Royalist Imagination, 1637-60", Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States of America. (2019).
  • Fullerton, S. (Author & Presenter), Confronting Royal Bodies: Sexual Politics and the English Revolution, London Renaissance Seminar, London, UK, United Kingdom. (2018 - 2018).
  • Fullerton, S. (Author & Presenter), Rethinking Royalist Sexual Libel, 1640-45, University of Sheffield Early Modern British History Seminar, Sheffield, UK, United Kingdom. (2018 - 2018).
  • Fullerton, S. (Author & Presenter), Seventeenth-Century British History Seminar, Evil Counsellors, Popish Plots, and the Origins of Parliamentarian Sexual Libel, 1640-44, Institute of Historical Research, London, UK, United Kingdom. (2018 - 2018).

    • Panel Presentation

  • Fullerton, S. (Author & Presenter), North American Conference on British Studies Annual Meeting, English Revolutionaries Abroad: The Personal and the Political in Paris, 1640–49, NACBS, Denver, CO, United States of America. (2024).
  • Fullerton, S. (Author & Presenter), Preachers, Hearers, Readers, and Scribes: New Approaches to Early Modern Sermons in Manuscript, Parodying Peter: Assessing a (Forged?) Puritan Sermon of 1643, Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons, Boston, MA, United States of America. (2024).
  • Fullerton, S. (Author & Presenter), Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, Contesting Toleration: The Casuistry of Libel in Revolutionary England, PCCBS, Riverside, CA, United States of America. (2023 - 2023).
  • Fullerton, S. (Author & Presenter), Southern Conference on British Studies, The Logic of Libel in Post-Reformation England, SCBS, Baltimore, MD, United States of America. (2022 - 2022).
  • Fullerton, S. (Author & Presenter), Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, Anxiety, Libel, and the Clergy: John White’s First Century of Scandalous, Malignant Priests in Context/s, PCCBS, virtual, United States of America. (2022 - 2022).
  • Fullerton, S. (Author & Presenter), Enemies in the Early Modern World, 1453-1789, Counter-Martyrology, Libel, and Civil War Politics: John White's First Century of Scandalous, Malignant Priests in Context, University of Edinburgh, virtual, United Kingdom. (2021 - 2021).
  • Fullerton, S. (Author & Presenter), Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, Agnes Pym’s New Horse: Royalist Sexual Satire and the Outbreak of the English Civil War, PCCBS, virtual, United States of America. (2020 - 2020).
  • Fullerton, S. (Author & Presenter), "Sexual Libel and the Collapse of Civility in Civil War England, 1640-3", Oriel College, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom, United States of America. (2019).
  • Fullerton, S. (Author & Presenter), North American Conference on British Studies National Meeting, “New England in the Royalist Imagination, 1640-49", NACBS, Providence, RI, United States of America. (2018).
  • Fullerton, S. (Author & Presenter), Durham Early Modern Studies Conference, Gender, Sex, and Libel in the English Revolution: The Case of Elizabeth Cromwell, Durham University, Durham, UK, United Kingdom. (2018 - 2018).

    • Paper

  • Fullerton, S. (Author & Presenter), Early Modernity and Its Discontents, Spirited Away: Abduction, Indoctrination, and the Politics of Childhood in Revolutionary England, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States of America. (2023 - 2023).
  • Fullerton, S. (Author & Presenter), The Cogswell Effect: Perspectives on the Early Modern, Alderman Atkins’s No Good, Very Bad Day, University of California, Riverside, San Marino, CA, United States of America. (2023 - 2023).
  • Fullerton, S. (Author & Presenter), British and Imperial History Workshop, The ‘Holy Sister’ Anatomized, University of Chicago, virtual, United States of America. (2021).

Contracts, Grants, Sponsored Research

    Fellowship

  • Fullerton, S., "Short-Term Fellowship," sponsored by Harry Ransom Center, Other, $3500 Funded. (2023 - 2023).
  • Fullerton, S., "Clark-Bibliographical Fellowship," sponsored by William Andrew Clark Memorial Library, Other, $3000 Funded. (2022 - 2022).
  • Fullerton, S., "Dissertation Fellowship," sponsored by University of California Humanities Research Institute, Regional, $1000 Funded. (2019 - 2019).
  • Fullerton, S., "Paul W. McQuillen Fellowship," sponsored by John Carter Brown Library, Other, $4200 Funded. (2019 - 2019).
  • Fullerton, S.C., "Dissertation Year Fellowship," sponsored by University of California, Riverside, Other, $14400 Funded. (2018 - 2019).
  • Fullerton, S., "Early Career Fellowship," sponsored by London Renaissance Seminar, International, Funded. (2018 - 2018).
  • Fullerton, S., "Short-Term Research Fellowship," sponsored by The Huntington Library, Regional, $9000 Funded. (2017 - 2018).
  • Fullerton, S., "Charles Montgomery Gray Short-Term Fellowship," sponsored by Newberry Library, Regional, $2500 Funded. (2016 - 2017).
  • Fullerton, S., "Visiting Graduate Student Fellowship," sponsored by Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Other, $6000 Funded. (2016 - 2017).
  • Fullerton, S., "Kanner Fellowship in British Studies," sponsored by William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Other, $7500 Funded. (2016 - 2017).

    • Grant - Research

  • Fullerton, S., "Postdoctoral Travel Grant," sponsored by North American Conference on British Studies, National, $4000 Funded. (2023 - 2024).
  • Fullerton, S., "Ernest Propes Endowed Graduate Fellowship Fund," sponsored by University of California, Riverside, Other, $2000 Funded. (2019 - 2019).
  • Fullerton, S., "Huntington Library Travel Grant," sponsored by The Huntington Library, Regional, $4500 Funded. (2017 - 2018).

Service

University Service

  • Committee Member, Women's History Month Committee. (September 2024 - May 2025).
  • Committee Member, Graduate Student Conference Committee. (September 2024 - March 2025).

Professional Service

  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Cultural History. (2022 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Gender & History. (2021 - Present).