Graduate Student, School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics
Thesis Title: BL, Additional MS 36529: A Study in Sixteenth-Century Literary and Manuscript Culture
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Prof. Cathy Shrank
Prof. Steven W. May |
About
My major research interest is in Tudor Poetry; more specifically, it is in early- and mid-Tudor poetry, c. 1520-1580. I am keen to keep pushing back that first date until it incorporates much of the fifteenth century.
My doctoral research focuses on BL, Additional MS 36529, a poetry miscellany associated with the Harington family of Stepney and Kelston which was compiled over the reign of Elizabeth I (c. 1560 - c. 1600). The bulk of its texts, however, are early- or mid-century in origin: Add. MS 36529 has the largest extant collection of Surrey poems in MS, and features poems by (among others) Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sir Thomas Chaloner, Thomas Phaer, John Harington of Stepney, and (particularly intriguingly) the Jesuit Martyr Edmund Campion. The upshot of my research will be an edition of the MS, comprising an introduction, biographical information on its compilers, full annotations on the poems, and a critical apparatus.
I maintain a wider interest in Wyatt and Surrey, and am also conducting sporadic research on: The Mirror for Magistrates, Cavendish's Metrical Visions, Tottel's Miscellany (Grimald + 'Uncertain Auctours'), and the wonderfully-named Barnabe Googe.
Beyond the academic, I have an inordinately large love for the Swedish progressive metal band Opeth, as well as prog rock and folk more generally (especially obscure continental stuff from the 1970s).
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