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: the creation of cultural networks through the exchange, collection and replication of precious objects in the fifteenth century, especially in the Italian 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 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.
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