Sylvana Tomaselli

Sylvana Tomaselli (FRHS) is currently the Sir Harry Hinsley Lecturer in History at St John’s College, Cambridge. As an intellectual historian, she has worked on a wide range of topics and authors, predominantly within the long eighteenth century. Based in Cambridge, where she arrived more than three decades ago to do her MA, she has lectured on eighteenth and nineteenth-century political theory, in particular Rousseau, Adam Smith, Burke and Mary Wollstonecraft, as well as on political philosophy, with a special emphasis on gender and feminist political philosophy. Her publications include Rape: An Historical and Social Enquiry (1986), Dialectics of Friendship (1989) with Roy Porter, and more recently ‘A Vindication of the Rights of Man’ in The Wollstonecraftian Mind (eds. Eileen H. Botting & Alan Coffee, 2020). Her most recent work is the forthcoming book Wollstonecraft. Philosophy, Passion, and Politics (Dec. 2020).