Events
4 May 2021
Online roundtable hosted by the Society for Renaissance Studies, devoted to ‘Early Modern German Shakespeare in Action: Creation Theatre’s Romio und Julieta’.
6 May 2021
Rehearsed reading by Creation Theatre of Romio und Julieta in the English translation, published by Arden Shakespeare.
10 November
Cuso Event: Animating Books: Rethinking Book History
CUSO Doctoral Workshop in Medieval and Early Modern English Studies
Roughly fortnightly events, with a mix of guest lectures, workshops, work-in-progress papers, etc. See full program for Spring and Autumn 2021 below.
6 October
Prof. Christiania Whitehead (Universities of Warwick, Lausanne and Geneva): "New Directions in Late Medieval English Lyric Studies".
News
Emily Smith was appointed to an assistant position in the summer of 2020, following Oliver Morgan’s move to the University of Cambridge.
Oliver Morgan, now a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Cambridge, is the joint winner of the 2020 Shakespeare’s Globe Book Award for his monograph Turn-Taking in Shakespeare (Oxford UP, 2019), based on his Geneva PhD thesis.
In spring 2021, Aleida Auld completed her PhD thesis entitled ‘Reconfiguring Early Modern English Poetry in the Editorial Tradition: Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert, and Milton’.
Georgia Fulton was appointed to an assistant position in the summer of 2021
Emily Smith has received the Alexandra Johnston Award by the Medieval and Renaissance Society for the best conference paper in early drama studies by a graduate student. Her paper was entitled “‘And you may have more sport’: Dekker’s Epilogues in the Theatrical Marketplace”.
