Amy Dunagin
Amy Dunagin is an assistant professor of history, specializing in the cultural and
political history of Britain and its empire. Her research focuses on how Britons
made sense of their shifting cultural identities during the transformative decades
of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. She is currently completing a book
manuscript entitled “The Land Without Music: English Identity and the Italian Other,”
in which she explores how English audiences interpreted the popularity of Italian
music at a time otherwise known for xenophobia, anti-Catholicism, and national cultural
pride.
She is also embarking on a second project on Ulster Scot migration and identity in
the eighteenth-century British Atlantic. Her work appears in venues such as the Journal of British Studies, Eighteenth-Century Life, and Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture.
Dunagin received her doctorate in history and musicology from Yale University. Prior
to her appointment at KSU, she taught world history, European history, and music history
at Oklahoma City, Quinnipiac, and Yale Universities. She also served as Managing
Editor of the interdisciplinary journal Eighteenth-Century Studies from 2015 to 2017.
She teaches courses on world history and British history at KSU.
Education
Ph.D., Yale University
B.A., Yale University