Who we are

Staff in the research group are listed below, together with brief descriptions of their research interests and links to their main research profiles.

• Dr Gemma Allen
  Lecturer in Early Modern History: political, religious and cultural history of later sixteenth and early seventeenth-century England, particularly the study of early modern women.
• Dr SJ Allen,
  Associate Lecturer, Humanities: the Crusades, the Crusades and modern memory, medieval ecclesiastical history, medieval Islamic and Byzantine studies.
• Dr Piers Baker-Bates,
  Honorary Associate, Art History: Italian and Spanish Art of the Sixteenth Century and especially processes of cultural exchange between the Italian Peninsula and the Spanish Imperial World
• Dr Naomi Barker
  Lecturer in Music: seventeenth-century Italian keyboard and other instrumental music, performance practice, cultural contexts and cross-disciplinary aspects of music and art.
• Dr Carla Benzan
  Lecturer in Art History: sacred and scientific images of the Catholic Reformation in northern Italy; realism and vision; materiality and embodiment.
• Professor Richard Danson Brown
  Professor of English Literature: sixteenth-century poetry, especially Spenser, and Shakespeare studies.

• Dr Kathleen Christian
  Lecturer in Art History: Italian art from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries, especially cross-cultural exchange and the reception of antiquity in early modern Italy.
• Dr Leah Clark
  Senior Lecturer in Art History: collecting and exchange of objects in the Italian courts, diplomacy, transcultural objects and cross-cultural exchanges between Italian courts and the Mamluk and Ottoman courts.
• Dr Martin Clarke
  Lecturer in Music: sacred music and the relationships between music, theology and religious practice, particularly the hymnody of eighteenth-century Methodism.
• Dr Charlotte Clifton-Moore
  Associate Lecturer in History: seventeenth-century history, with a particular interest in the 1620s and 1630s and the road to Civil War.
• Dr Helen Coffey
  Lecturer in Music: civic and court musical patronage and exchange from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, especially concerning Germany, Austria and Britain.
• Dr Silvia De Renzi
  Lecturer in History of Medicine: the uses of medical knowledge in Counter Reformation Italy, particularly the history of legal medicine and of dissecting practices.
• Mary Emerson
  Associate Lecturer in Art History.
• Dr Suzanne Forbes
  Lecturer in History: late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Irish and British history, particularly print culture and politics.
• David Force
  Research Student in Music: seventeenth-century domestic music, particularly the role of the organ in consort and devotional music in England.
• Elizabeth Ford
  Associate Lecturer in Arts and Humanities.
• Dr Michael Gale
  Honorary Associate in Music: Musical culture in early modern England (particularly education and professional training); digital musicology.
• Dr Jonathan Gibson
  Senior Lecturer in English: early modern literature and book history, particularly manuscript culture of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
• Professor Ole Grell
  Professor of Early Modern History: European social and cultural history in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, particularly Calvinism, Anglo-Dutch relations, and the history of medicine.
• Jill Harrison
  Associate Lecturer in Art History: The political, economic and cultural history of early Trecento Italian art, networks of patronage and secular and civic imagery.
• Dr Kathy Holman
  Associate Lecturer in History: Early Medieval Britain and Scandinavia, particularly the Viking settlement of the British Isles and runic inscriptions.
• Dr M A Katritzky
  Senior Wilkes Research Fellow in Theatre Studies: early modern English and comparative literature and drama, particularly Shakespeare studies, book history and literature and medicine.
• Dr Edmund King
  Research Associate in English: book history and the history of reading, Shakespeare studies, and the authorship and attribution of early modern drama.
• Professor Helen King
  Chair in Classical Studies: classical medicine, particularly gynaecology and obstetrics, and its reception in the Renaissance and early modern period.
• Dr Liz Lane
  Associate Lecturer in Music: music composition, music arranging, music for disabled young musicians, especially OpenUp Music (Composer in Association).
• Professor Anne Laurence
  Professor of History: the seventeenth-century civil wars of the British Isles, women and gender in early modern Britain and Ireland, the early modern stock market in England and its private investors.
• Dr Hannah Lavery
  Lecturer in English: sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poetry, erotic and satiric literatures.
• Dr Angeliki Lymberopoulou
  Senior Lecturer in Art History: late and post-Byzantine artistic patronage and production in Venetian Crete (1211-1669), particularly of icons and frescoes.
• Dr Sean McGlynn FRHistS
  Associate Lecturer in History: monarchy in medieval England and France, medieval warfare, war and non-combatants in medieval and early modern history,  medieval heresy, national identity through history.
• Dr Elaine Moohan
  Senior Lecturer in Music: fifteenth-century sacred music and its sources and music in Glasgow.
• Dr Diana Newall
  Associate Lecturer in Art History: the cultural and artistic developments on Crete from the 13th -15th centuries.
• Dr Anita Pacheco
  Senior Lecturer in English: the Restoration, especially the work of Aphra Behn, early modern women's writing, and the relationship between literature and politics 1660-1688.
• Dr Alice Sanger
  Honorary Associate in Art History: art patronage and devotional practice of the Medici grand duchesses of the later sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
• Dr Susie West
  Senior Lecturer in Art History: the English country house, its landscape setting, and private libraries of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
• Dr Sara Wolfson
  Lecturer in Early Modern History: European court culture, gender, queenship, exile, diplomacy and dynastic relations in the early seventeenth century, particularly focusing on the Court of Charles I and his consort, Queen Henrietta Maria.
• Dr Kim Woods
  Honorary Associate in Art History: art of northern Europe from the mid-fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth century, especially sculpture, Netherlandish art, religious imagery and artistic exchange. 
• Dr Neil Younger
  Lecturer in History: sixteenth-century English history, particularly Elizabethan politics and government, the Tudor court and early modern European war and society.
• Dr Molly Ziegler
  Lecturer in Drama and Performance Studies: early modern drama and theatre practices, particularly dramaturgy and representations of disease, gender and madness.