Early modern literature

Early modern period research is under The Open University’s Medieval and Early Modern Research Group. We have wide-ranging expertise in social, political, religious and cultural developments of the medieval and early modern periods. Our research interests embrace a broad geographical area, covering developments across Europe and further afield. The group fosters a supportive environment within which staff and students can develop; and collaborate in their studies of the medieval and early modern periods.

We promote medieval and early modern studies through The Open University’s undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum and welcome applications for MPhil and PhD studies concerning the primary research interests of our group, including: symbolic and material witnesses (letters, objects, music and art), Elizabethan and Jacobean society, religion, medicine, performance and performativity, intellectual and cultural history, etc.

Entry requirements

Minimum 2:1 undergraduate degree (or equivalent). If you are not a UK citizen, you may need to prove your knowledge of English. 

Current research projects

• Gender and Genre in Shakespeare’s Treatment of Silence
• Terror(ism) and early modern drama: the representation of political violence on the early modern stage

Potential supervisors

16^th and 17^th century and Romantic period:

• Professor Richard Danson Brown
• Dr Jonathan Gibson
• Dr M A Katritzky
• Dr Edmund King
• Dr Hannah Lavery
• Dr Molly Ziegler

Fees and funding

Some of our research students are funded via the Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership; others are self-funded.

For detailed information about fees and funding, visit Fees and studentships.

To see current funded studentship vacancies across all research areas, see Current studentships.

Links

• Medieval and Early Modern Spaces and Places