Affiliated Staff
The Centre has one of the greatest concentrations of expertise in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies in the United Kingdom. The academic experts who form the core of the Centre include:
- Dr Ruth Ahnert, Lecturer, School of English and Drama
Research interests: Reformation literature and theology, book history, prison writings and letter networks - Professor Adrian Armstrong, Centenary Professor of French, School of Languages, Linguistics and Film
Research interests: Late Medieval French literature (up to the mid-sixteenth century), specialist in manuscript and early print culture - Dr Tamara Atkin, Senior Lecturer in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Literature, School of English and Drama
Research interests: fifteenth and sixteenth century drama, religious reform before and during the English Reformation(s), book history and histories of reading, the periodization of medieval and renaissance English literature - Dr Peter Auger, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, School of English and Drama
Research Interests: literary reception in England, Scotland and France, 1550-1650 - Dr Jérémie Barthas, Marie Curie Intra-European Senior Research Fellow, School of History
Research Interests: the political and financial history of High Renaissance Florence, Machiavelli - Professor James Bolton, Professorial Research Fellow, School of History
Research interests: Medieval economic history - Professor Julia Boffey, Professor of Medieval Studies, School of English and Drama
Research interests: manuscript and book production 1350-1550, late medieval and sixteenth-century English and Scottish verse, especially lyrics, Chaucer and his sixteenth century reception - Dr Warren Boutcher, Reader in Renaissance Studies, School of English and Drama
Research interests: late Humanism, translation, Montaigne - Professor Andrea Brady, School of English and Drama
Research interests: poetry, ritual, emotions, Neoplatonism, embodiment and the material conditions of writing, particularly in the seventeenth century - Professor Jerry Brotton, Professor of Renaissance Studies School of English and Drama
Research interests: Renaissance visual and material culture, east-west cultural exchange, Shakespeare, Early Modern cartography and travel - Dr Elena Carrera, Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies, School of Languages, Linguistics and Film
Research interests: history of ideas; critical theory; Early Modern autobiography; gender and power in Early Modern Spain; history of madness; the emotions in medieval and early modern Europe - Dr David Colclough, Senior Lecturer, School of English and Drama
Research interests: history of English political thought, rhetoric, and religious writing in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries - Professor Trevor J Dadson, Professor of Hispanic Studies, School of Languages, Linguistics and Film
Research interests: Spanish Golden Age poetry, Cervantes, textual editing, book ownership and literacy, cultural, literary and social history - Dr Peter Denley, Reader in History, School of History
Research interests: Medieval history, history of universities, alterity in the middle ages - Dr Rosa Vidal Doval, Lecturer in Hispanic Studies, School of Languages, Linguistics and Film
Research interests: inter-religious conflict and polemics in fifteenth century Spain - Dr Bridget Escolme, Senior Lecturer, School of English and Drama
Research interests: Early Modern performance practice,
Contemporary performance of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, the role of the audience, theatre for young people and theatre in education - Dr Alfred Hiatt, Reader, School of English and Drama
Research interests: Medieval literature and culture, with a special interest in spatial representation; forgeries and document culture - Dr Jennifer Hillman, British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of History
Research interests: lay piety during the Catholic Reformation, court culture in Early Modern France, material culture - Professor Kate Lowe, Professor of Renaissance History and Culture, School of History
Research interests: Renaissance and Early Modern Italy and Portugal - Dr Una McIlvenna, Lecturer in Early modern Literature, School of English and Drama.
Research Interests:balladry, orality and performativity, early modern crime and punishment, court studies, cultural history. - Professor Markman Ellis, Professor of eighteenth century studies, School of English and Drama
Research interests: eighteenth century English literature and culture, London, criticism and intellectual culture, sensibility and women’s writing, representations of slavery and empire - Dr Will McMorran, Senior Lecturer in French and Comparative Literature, School of Languages, Linguistics and Film
Research interests: the Early Modern Novel in France and England, the afterlife of Early Modern literature in contemporary popular culture. - Professor Miles Ogborn, Professor of Geography, Head of the School of Geography
Research interests: global historical geographies - Professor Claire Preston, Professor of Renaissance Literature, School of English and Drama
Research interests: science and literature 1500-1700, Sir Thomas Browne, ekphrasis, early-modern epistolarity - Dr Eyal Poleg, Lecturer, School of History
Research interests: religion and material culture, the Medieval Bible, digital medievalism - Professor Michael Questier, School of History
Research interests: politics of religion in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; post-Reformation history - Professor Joad Raymond, Professor of Renaissance Studies, School of English and Drama
- Professor Miri Rubin, Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History, School of History
Research interests: religious cultures and social relations in Europe 1100-1600, Jewish-Christian relations in medieval Europe, history of women and gender, historiography - Professor Quentin Skinner, Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities, School of History
Research interests: Early Modern European intellectual history, with a particular interest in the rhetorical culture of the Renaissance and the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes - Dr Catherine Silverstone, Senior Lecturer, School of English and Drama
Research interests: Early Modern drama in performance on stage and screen, especially in relation to gender, sexual and racial politics and Shakespearean cultural politics
Images on the Renaissance and Early Modern Studies website taken by Alastair Dunning.