Who we are

Staff

• Dr Gemma Allen
  Senior 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 Naomi Barker
  Senior Lecturer in Music: Late sixteenth and seventeenth-century Italian music and its cultural contexts, especially interdisciplinary aspects of music and science, medicine, religion and art; performance practice.
   
• Dr Carla Benzan
  Lecturer in Art History: sacred and scientific images of the Catholic Reformation in northern Italy; realism and vision; materiality and embodiment.
   
• Dr Linda Briggs
  Staff Tutor in History: cultural, religious and social history of early modern France (in particular the French wars of religion), festival culture across early modern Europe, visual and material cultures.
   
• Professor Richard Danson Brown
  Professor of English Literature: sixteenth-century poetry, especially Spenser, and Shakespeare studies.
   
• Dr Helen Coffey
  Senior Lecturer in Music: civic and court musical patronage and exchange from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, especially concerning Germany, Austria and Britain.
   
• Dr Rachel Davies
  Associate Lecturer in Music, Arts and Humanities: European vocal music pre-1400, particularly French and English secular song, linguistic and numerical symbolism, the Virgin Mary, and sacred-secular exchange. Also, women in medieval music.
   
• Dr Silvia De Renzi
  Senior Lecturer in History of Medicine: the uses of medical knowledge in Counter Reformation Italy, particularly the history of legal medicine and of dissecting practices.
   
• Dr Michael Gale
  Associate Lecturer 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; the Elizabethan Court.
   
• Dr David Grummitt
  Staff Tutor in History: kingship, warfare and political culture in late medieval England and Europe, particularly the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries and the Wars of the Roses.
   
• 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 Amy Hayes
  Staff Tutor and Lecturer in History: medieval queenship, particularly focused on socio-cultural role of Scottish queens consort. Also, elite medieval women and children, and Scottish medieval history more broadly.
   
• Professor M A Katritzky
  Professor Of Theatre Studies: early modern English, comparative and transnational literature, drama and performance culture.
   
• Dr William Kynan-Wilson
  Senior Lecturer in Art History: medieval and early modern travel literature and travel imagery; medieval responses to the ancient world; medieval Rome; cross-cultural exchange between Europe and the Ottoman world; early modern costume books.
   
• Dr Hannah Lavery
  Senior Lecturer in English: sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English and European literatures; poetry (ancient to modern); early modern erotic literature; manuscripts and archives.
   
• Professor Elaine Moohan
  Professor of Musicology: fifteenth-century sacred music and its sources, music in Glasgow.
   
• Dr Andrew Murray
  Lecturer in Art History: art and ceremony of late medieval France and Valois Burgundy (c. 1350-1520), and the history of emotions, particularly the work of Johan Huizinga.
   
• Dr Niall Oddy
  Staff Tutor in History: cultural and intellectual history of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe, particularly travel and cross-cultural exchange.
   
• 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.
   
• Professor Clare Taylor
  Professor in Art History: the material culture of seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Britain; particularly gilt leather hangings and wallpaper.
   
• Dr Margit Thøfner
  Senior Lecturer in Art History: painting, sculpture, architecture, urban spaces, print-making, politics and gender as well as visual, processional, devotional and musical cultures in the Netherlands, Germany, England, Scotland and Scandinavia during the early modern period.
   
• Dr Robert J. Wallis   
  Senior Lecturer and Staff Tutor in Art History: early Anglo-Saxon art and archaeology; early medieval human-raptor sociality; Anglo-Saxon falconry; early medieval ‘paganism’; the Anglo-Saxon ‘conversion’ to Christianity; Viking art and archaeology; re-presentations of Anglo-Saxon and Norse paganism by today’s Heathens.
   
• Dr Roisin Watson
  Lecturer in Early Modern History: religious and cultural history of early modern Europe, in particular the German Reformation, and visual and material cultures.
   
• 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 Molly Ziegler
  Lecturer in Drama and Performance Studies: early modern drama and theatre practices, particularly dramaturgy and representations of disease, gender and madness.

Research students 

• Ruth Allen: 'Entrusted and enriched: the textual and material significance of medieval manuscripts in National Trust libraries'
   
• Kerry-Louise Apps: 'Imagining Asia at Ham House, c.1637-1698'
   
• Tabatha Barton: ‘Reinventing the Wheel: The Wheel as a Symbol in Iron age and Roman religion across Northwestern Europe’
   
• Isabelle Lepore-Thompson: ‘Reconceiving the Development of Medieval Drama pre 1200 Through Abbot Geoffrey de Gorron and Female Advisers’
   
• Antonia Saunders: 'Constructions of Jewishness in English Nineteenth-Century Novels and Histories'
   
• Izzy Stone: ‘Netherlandish Networks: Home-making in an age of emerging global capitalism (1565-1799)’
   
• Etsuko Zakoji: ‘Bicorporate Imagery in Medieval England - Exploring Liminal identity and Apotropaic symbolism’