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 S.J. 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 in 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
  Senior 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.
• 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 Charlotte Brownhill
  Lecturer in History and Associate Lecturer: seventeenth-century history, with a particular interest in the 1620s and 1630s and the road to Civil War.
• Dr Martin Clarke
  Senior Lecturer in Music: sacred music and the relationships between music, theology and religious practice, particularly the hymnody of eighteenth-century Methodism.
• 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 Elizabeth Ford
  Associate Lecturer in Arts and Humanities: the material conditions of playwriting surrounding and informing the composition and revision of Shakespeare’s plays.
• Dr Michael Gale
  Honorary Associate in Music: Musical culture in early modern England (particularly education and professional training); digital musicology.
• Dr Natalee Garrett
  Lecturer in History: print culture, public opinion and the construction of identities in eighteenth-century Europe, particularly Britain and France.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Dr Tim Hammond
  Staff Tutor in English: representations of poverty in early modern English drama; plays at the Rose.
• 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.
• Dr Kathy Holman
  Honorary Associate 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.
• 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 Liz Lane
  Associate Lecturer in Music: music composition, music arranging, music for disabled young musicians, especially OpenUp Music (Trustee).
• Dr Chris Langley
  Staff Tutor in History: social and religious history of early modern Scotland; digital approaches to the humanities.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 Diana Newall
  Staff Tutor in Art History: the cultural and artistic developments on Crete from the 13th -15th centuries.
• Dr Niall Oddy
  Staff Tutor in History: cultural and intellectual history of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe, particularly travel and cross-cultural exchange.
• Dr Claire Phillips
  Lecturer in History: Childhood and youth, medical care in the London Foundling Hospital, welfare and poverty institutions.
• 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 Samuel Sargeant
  Staff Tutor in Creative Writing: historiography and its relationship to historical fiction; how narrative structure relates to genre in Old Norse Icelandic sagas. 
• 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 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.

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'
• Claire Ashwell: 'Emotion and Elizabethan Royal Ceremonies'
• Lynn Berry: '"All That Can Be Wished For": Representations of Nature by Colonial Authors from New France, 1603-1708'
• Isabelle Lepore: 'A Social Act: exploring the development of drama before the thirteenth-century through the legacies of Abbot Geoffrey de Gorron and his female advisers' 
• Kim Pratt: 'Monsters as the Other: A Defence of Polyphemos from Homer’s Odyssey to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein'
• Antonia Saunders: 'Constructions of Jewishness in English Nineteenth-Century Novels and Histories'
• Sharon Wiseman: 'Text and Performance: Symbolism, Myth and Acting in the Plays of Nathaniel Lee and Thomas Otway'