Professor Gerrard's main areas of research are eighteenth-century political literature, and women's writing of the long eighteenth century. She is currently completing an edition of Jonathan Swift, The History of the Four Last Years of the Queen and related writings from the Queen Anne period for CUP, and an article on Swift and Robert Walpole. Her most recently published work is on eighteenth-century women and memory, with a particular focus on Irish women's writing, especially the circle around Swift. This has included articles such as 'What the Women of Dublin did with John Locke', and 'Laetitia Pilkington and the Mnemonic Self'. Professor Gerrard is developing these ideas into a larger project on women, memory and commemoration, a project inspired by my keynote address on 'Memory and the Eighteenth-Century Female Poet' at the BAKEA conference on Memory in Anatolia, Turkey, at the end of 2017.