Prof James Mussell
University of Leeds
Regional Representative for Yorkshire and the North
James Mussell is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Print Cultures and Deputy Director of the Centre for the Comparative History of Print at the University of Leeds. His research interests encompass Victorian Studies, comparative media studies, print history, and the digital humanities. He is the author of Science, Time and Space in the Late Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press (2007) and The Nineteenth-Century Press in the Digital Age (2012). He was part of the team that launched the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (ncse, 2008), seeing through its second edition in 2018 and leading a project to secure and share its data before closing it down (2026). He is also one of the editors of W.T. Stead: Newspaper Revolutionary (2012); A Pioneer of Connection: Recovering the Life and Work of Oliver Lodge(2020); and Letterpress Printing: Past, Present, Future (2023).
