Dr Rachel Willie
Humanities and Social Science
Faculty of Arts Professional and Social Studies
Email: R.J.Willie@ljmu.ac.uk
My research covers seventeenth-century literary history and culture. My first book, "Staging the Revolution: drama, reinvention and history, 1647-72" (shortlisted for the University English Early Career Book Prize, 2016) offers a reappraisal of drama, both in terms of live performances and performances on the paper stage. My book argues that, far from 1660 marking a watershed moment as is often asserted in the texts transmitted in the Restoration and assumed to be true by later critics, late seventeenth-century England was concerned with the continuing legacies of recent history and this is revealed in literature printed and disseminated in the period. While researching this book, I became intrigued by the number of anonymous scurrilous pamphlets ‘by the man in the moon’ and I have begun a wider study on ‘long seventeenth-century’ responses to the moon as an embodied and as a philosophical construct. With Kevin Killeen and Helen Smith, both based at the University of York, I co-edited "The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Early Modern England, c. 1530-1700" (winner of the Roland H. Bainton Prize in Reference Works, 2016). More recently, my research has broadened to consider emotions and the senses by drawing from my interests in material cultures and the relationship between literature and the epistemologies that underpin politics, religion and natural philosophy; this is supported by considering the relationship between literature and history. I have ongoing interests in early modern drama, music, cheap print, publicness, the early modern soundscape, history and cultural history, and the history of ideas.
Before joining LJMU in 2016, I taught at Bangor University, the University of Manchester and the University of York. I have taught extensively across all periods of English literary history and interdisciplinary modules on the relationship between music and text. My teaching is fundamentally dialogic, encouraging students to explore ideas through discussion and analysis as a way to extend and stimulate critical thinking. I would be happy to receive proposals for postgraduate research on early modern literature and culture, especially on early modern drama; early modern prose; seventeenth-century political thought; early modern science and religion; performance and the paper stage; adaptation; myth and cultural memory; writing history; materialities.
Degrees
University of York, United Kingdom, PhD in English
King's College London, United Kingdom, MA in English
University of Roehampton, United Kingdom, BA (hons) in English Literature and Music
Certifications
2021, English Association, Fellow
2020, Royal Historical Society, FRHistS
2015, Higher Education Academy, United Kingdom, FHEA
Academic appointments
Reader in Early Modern Literary Studies, Liverpool John Moores University, 2019 - present
Senior Lecturer, Liverpool John Moores Unversity, 2016 - 2019
Highlighted publications
Preedy CK, Willie R. 2024. Thomas Nashe and Literary Performance Willie R, Preedy CK. Manchester University Press. Manchester 978-1-5261-4946-6 DOI Publisher Url
Group TF. 2020. Travel and Conflict in the Early Modern World Gélleri G, Willie R. Routledge 9780367524210
Willie R. 2015. Staging the Revolution Drama, Reinvention and History, 1647-72 Manchester University Press. Manchester 9780719087639 Publisher Url
Killeen K, Smith H, Willie R. 2015. The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Early Modern England, C. 1530-1700 Oxford University Press. Oxford 9780199686971 Publisher Url
Chapters
Willie R. 2024. Thomas Nashe beyond the grave Preedy CK, Willie R. Thomas Nashe and Literary Performance Manchester University Press. Manchester 978-1-5261-4946-6 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Preedy CK, Willie R. 2024. Introduction: Why nashe? Why now? Thomas Nashe and literary performance :1-22 DOI Publisher Url
Willie R. 2023. 7 Thomas Nashe beyond the grave Thomas Nashe and literary performance :147-168 Manchester University Press DOI
Preedy CK, Willie R. 2023. Introduction Thomas Nashe and literary performance :1-22 Manchester University Press DOI
Willie RJ. 2021. Inscribing Textuality: Milton, Davenant, Authorship and the Performance of Print Depledge E, Garrison J, Narcosia M. Making Milton: Print, Authorship, Afterlives :92-107 Oxford University Press DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Willie RJ. 2020. William Cavendish: Virtue, Virtuosity and the Image of the Courtier Hopkins L, Rutter T. A Companion to the Cavendishes Writing, Patronage, and Material Culture :127-144 Arc Humanities Press DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Willie RJ. 2017. Translation Hiscock A, Wilcox H. The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern English Literature and Religion :119-134 Oxford University Press 9780199672806 Publisher Url Public Url
Willie RJ. 2015. 'All Scripture is given by inspiration of God' : Dissonance and psalmody Killeen K, Smith H, Willie R. The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Early Modern England, C. 1530-1700 Oxford University Press, USA. Oxford Publisher Url Public Url
Willie RJ. 2013. Viewing the Paper Stage: Civil War, Print, Theatre and the Public Sphere Vanhaelen A, Ward J. Making Space Public in Early Modern Europe Performance, Geography, Privacy Routledge 9781135104665 DOI Publisher Url
Willie R. 2013. Viewing the Paper Stage: Civil War, Print, Theater and the Public Sphere Making Space Public in Early Modern Europe: Performance, Geography, Privacy :54-75 DOI Publisher Url
Willie RJ. "I thought my blood derived a Crown to us, / But now I find it derives only Treason": Remembering and Forgetting the civil war Bayer M, Navitsky J. Shakespeare and Civil Unrest in Britain and the United States Routledge 9780367741952 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Willie R. Falling into temptation: risking vulnerability in Hero and Leander and Paradise Lost Sterrett J, Findlay A, Wilcox H. Early Modern Bonds of Trust: From Shakespeare to Milton Bloomsbury Publishing 9781350462007 Publisher Url
Books (authored)
Preedy CK, Willie R. 2024. Thomas Nashe and Literary Performance Willie R, Preedy CK. Manchester University Press. Manchester 978-1-5261-4946-6 DOI Publisher Url
Group TF. 2020. Travel and Conflict in the Early Modern World Gélleri G, Willie R. Routledge 9780367524210
Willie R. 2015. Staging the Revolution Drama, Reinvention and History, 1647-72 Manchester University Press. Manchester 9780719087639 Publisher Url
Killeen K, Smith H, Willie R. 2015. The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Early Modern England, C. 1530-1700 Oxford University Press. Oxford 9780199686971 Publisher Url
Book review
Willie R. 2024. Tyranny and Usurpation: The New Prince and Lawmaking Violence in Early Modern Drama by Doyeeta Majumder (review) Modern Language Review, 119 :404 DOI
Willie R. 2024. Tyranny and Usurpation: The New Prince and Lawmaking Violence in Early Modern Drama by Doyeeta Majumder (review) Modern Language Review, 119 :404 DOI Publisher Url
Willie R. 2024. Review of Doyeeta Majumder, Tyranny and Usurpation: the New Prince and Lawmaking Violence in Early Modern Drama (Liverpool University Press, 2019) Modern Language Review, 119 :404-404
Willie R. 2024. Review of Benjamin Parris, Vital Strife: Insomnia, and the Early Modern Ethics of Care (Cornell University Press, 2022) Renaissance Quarterly, 77 :332-334
Willie R. 2024. Review of Heidi Craig, Theatre Closure and the Paradoxical Rise of English Renaissance Drama in the Civil Wars (Cambridge University Press, 2023) English Studies: a journal of English language and literature, 105 :669-669
Willie R. 2024. Vital Strife: Sleep, Insomnia, and the Early Modern Ethics of Care. Benjamin Parris. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. 298 pp. $64.95. Renaissance Quarterly, 77 :332-334 DOI Publisher Url
Willie R. 2024. Theatre Closure and the Paradoxical Rise of English Renaissance Drama in the Civil Wars ENGLISH STUDIES, 105 :669-671 DOI Publisher Url
Willie R. 2022. Jennifer Linhart Wood, "Sounding Otherness in Early Modern Drama and Travel: Uncanny Vibrations in the English Archive" Archiv, 258 :139-140
Willie R. 2019. Dennis Austin Britton and Melissa Walter, eds, "Rethinking Shakespeare Source Study: Audiences, Authors and Digital Technologies" (Routledge, 2018) Renaissance Quarterly, 72 :1158-1159
Willie R. 2019. Review of Laurenz Lütteken, Music of the Renaissance: Imagination and Reality of a Cultural Practice, trans. James Steichen, (University of California Press, 2019) European History Quarterly, 49 :682-683 DOI Publisher Url
Willie R. 2019. Leah Orr, "Novel Ventures: Fiction and Print Culture in England, 1690-1739" (The University of Virginia Press, 2017) Modern Language Review, 114 :853-854
Willie RJ. 2018. Thomas Traherne in Seventeenth Century Thought, edited by Elizabeth Dodd and Cassandra Gorman (DS Brewer) MLR, :224-226 DOI Publisher Url
Willie RJ. 2017. Paul D. Stegner, "Confession and Memory in Early Modern English Literature: Penitential Remains" Renaissance Quarterly, 70 :399-401 DOI Publisher Url
Willie RJ. 2016. Richard Meek and Erin Sullivan, The Renaissance of Emotion: Understanding Affect in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries Shakespeare Bulletin: a journal of performance, criticism, and scholarship, 34 :187-192 DOI Publisher Url
Willie RJ. 2016. Cary DiPietro and Hugh Grady (eds), "Shakespeare and the Urgency of Now" Modern Language Review, :849-850 DOI Publisher Url
Willie RJ. 2016. Neil Rhodes (ed.) with Gordon Kendal and Louise Wilson, "English Renaissance Translation Theory" Modern Language Review, 111 :536-538 DOI Publisher Url
Willie RJ. 2016. Michael Bryson, "The Atheist Milton" Modern Language Review, 111 :540-41 DOI Publisher Url
Willie RJ. 2016. Sophie Chiari (ed.), "The Circulation of Knowledge in Early Modern English Literature" Renaissance Quarterly, :1572-1574 DOI Publisher Url
Willie RJ. 2015. Maria Teresa Micaela Prendergast, "Railing, Reviling and Invective in English Literary Culture, 1588-1617: The Anti-Poetics of Theater and Print" Modern Language Review, 110 :526-527 DOI Publisher Url
Willie RJ. 2012. Review of West Yorkshire Playhouse’s production of William Shakespeare’s "King Lear", dir. by Ian Brown Shakespeare, 8 :97-91 DOI Publisher Url
Willie RJ. 2010. Kathryn Lowerre, "Music and Musicians on the London Stage, 1695-1705" NTQ: New Theatre Quarterly, 26 :302-303 DOI Publisher Url
Willie RJ. 2009. Review of The Mooted Theatre Company’s production of John Ford’s "’Tis Pity She’s a Whore", dir. by Mark France Shakespeare, 5 :194-197 DOI Publisher Url
Willie RJ. 2008. Ayanna Thompson, "Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage" Cahiers Elisabethains: late medieval and renaissance English studies, 74 :87-88 DOI Publisher Url
Internet publication
Willie R. 2023. 'Literature, the Book, and the Bible in the Renaissance', Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of Literature DOI Publisher Url
Willie R. 2019. Game of Thrones: a song of revenge and redemption Author Url
Willie RJ. 2017. SRS at English Shared Futures Publisher Url
Willie R. 2014. William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona’" Publisher Url
Willie RJ. 2014. Edmund Spenser, "The Shepherdes Calendar" Publisher Url
Report
Willie R, Bailey R, Braun H. 2023. ‘Difficult Pasts, Difficult Presents: SRS Biennial Conference Report’, Bulletin of the Society for Renaissance Studies
Willie R. 2021. SRS Crowdcast Report Bulletin of the Society for Renaissance Studies
Willie R. 2018. 'SRS in Wales' Bulletin of the Society for Renaissance Studies :11-12
Willie R. 2016. 'The Great Fire of London' as part of ‘Roundtable: Annus mirabilis 2016 Anniversiaries’ The Bulletin of the Society for Renaissance Studies :5-7
Willie RJ, Gelléri G. 2016. Travel and Conflict in the Medieval and Early Modern World Bulletin of the Society for Renaissance Studies :14-15
Willie RJ. 2015. Rediscovering the Sounds of the Renaissance Bulletin of the Society for Renaissance Studies :30-32
Editorial/letter to the editor
Depledge E, Willie R. 2022. Introduction: Performance and the Paper Stage, 1640-1700 Huntington Library Quarterly, 85 :1-10 DOI Publisher Url
Journal article
Willie RJ. 2022. Ballads, Tudor Vagabonds and Roundhead Reputations: the Restoration After-Life of Cook Laurel Depledge E, Willie R. Huntington Library Quarterly: studies in English and American history and literature, 85 :91-111 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Clarke D, Li P, de Groot J, Willie RJ, Oakley-Brown L, O'Neill S, Junqueira J, Herrold M, Conti B, Chaudhuri S, Shrank C, Al-Azami L. 2021. How has (or might) social media change(d) our understanding of Spenser and Renaissance literature? Spenser Review, 51 Publisher Url Public Url
Willie R. 2019. Rethinking Shakespeare Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY, 72 :1158-1159 DOI Publisher Url
Willie RJ. 2017. Sensing the visual (mis)representation of William Laud SPELL: Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature, 34 Publisher Url Public Url
Willie RJ. 2011. Sacrificial Kings and Martyred Rebels: Charles and Rainborowe Beatified Études Épistémè, 20 Publisher Url
Willie RJ. 2008. Spiritual Union and the Problem of Sexuality Milton Studies, 47 :168-184 DOI Publisher Url
Books (edited)
2022. Performance and the Paper Stage, 1642-1700 Willie R, Depledge E. Huntington Library Quarterly Special Issue, 85.1 Publisher Url
2022. Performance and the Paper Stage, 1642-1700 Willie R, Depledge E. Huntington Library Quarterly Special Issue, 85.1 Publisher Url
External collaboration:
‘Bee-ing human: an interactive bee book for the twenty-first century’ Leverhulme-funded research project, led by Professor Jennifer Richards, University of Cambridge. 2025
ESSE Bid-Writing Workshop: Trust and Risk: Early Modern Experiences, Lancaster University. 2017
Trust and Risk in Literature Research Network (funded by the Danish Research Council), Aarhus University, http://projects.au.dk/trust-and-risk-in-literature-network/. 2015
The Academic Book of the Future (individual collaborator), UCL, https://academicbookfuture.org/. 2015
Making Publics Project (joined project in 2009), McGill University, http://makingpublics.mcgill.ca/. 2005
External committees:
Keele University, External Examiner, Undergraduate English programme. 2024
University of Leicester, External Examiner, Undergraduate English Programme. 2024
Oxford Brookes University, External Examiner, MA in English. 2023
Society for Renaissance Studies, Honorary Secretary, Council, https://www.rensoc.org.uk/. 2020
Society for Renaissance Studies, Trustee, Council, http://www.rensoc.org.uk/. 2018
Conference presentation:
Oral presentation, Deptford (Goldsmith’s), Marlowe Society of America Conference, ‘Hero and Leander and Vulnerability’. 2024
Oral presentation, University of Kent, Aphra Behn and her Restoration, Aphra Behn (Europe) International Society, 8th Conference, ‘Reappearing Women: Mythologising Behn’. 2024
Oral presentation, University of Bristol, Early Modern Studies Summer Symposium (Keynote), ‘[Extra] Terrestrial Travel: Cosmic Colonialism in "The Man in the Moone" (pub. 1638)’. 2024
Oral presentation, Liverpool John Moores University, British Milton Seminar, ‘Rhetoric and Vulnerability in "Hero and Leander" and "Paradise Lost"’. 2024
Oral presentation, The Bluecoat, RILCH Annual Conference, ‘“As time shall yeelde occasion be thou sure, / I will not fayle to make thee some amends”: time and [e]motion in John Lyly’s The Woman in the Moone (c.1593)’. 2023
Oral presentation, University of Galway, The Local and the Global in Early Modern English Literature, ‘“The first ancestor of this great Monarch came out of the earth”: cosmic colonialism’. 2023
Oral presentation, University of North Lincolnshire, (Invited), ‘The Body and Blood of King Charles I’. 2023
Oral presentation, Newcastle University, ‘Lend an Itching Ear’: Ubiquitous Music in Early Modern England Conference, ‘Worldmaking, soundmaking, moonmaking’. 2023
Oral presentation, Online, Sheffield Hallam – Bangor Early Modern Studies Seminar, ‘Knowledge, Doubt and "The Man in the Moon"’. 2022
Oral presentation, Dublin, Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, Chair and respondent, ‘Renaissance Music: Performativity and Failure’,. 2022
Oral presentation, Dublin, Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, ‘Trust, Risk, and Vulnerability in Paradise Lost, ‘Vulnerability and Pastoral Care: John Milton, Richard Baxter, and Roger L’Estrange’ panel. 2022
Oral presentation, LJMU/Online, Soundscapes in the Early Modern World, ‘Discord untie her tongue’: sounding (e)motion in John Lyly’s The Woman in the Moon (1597),. 2021
Oral presentation, Online, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland (invited), CUSO Workshop: Literary Utopia / Dystopia, Bodies and (e)motion in John Lyly’s "The Woman in the Moon (1597)"’. 2021
Oral presentation, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland (online, invited speaker), CUSO Workshop: Literary Utopia / Dystopia, Bodies and (e)motion in John Lyly’s "The Woman in the Moon" (1597). 2021
Oral presentation, Edinburgh/online, Edinburgh Early Modern Network, “The Obiect of the Eare, doe affect the Spirits”: Meditation, Memory, and Reading with your Ears. 2020
Oral presentation, York/Online, Sound Affects 1, Respondent: Acoustic Heritage and Hearing Archives. 2020
Oral presentation, Denver (moved online), Shakespeare Association of America 48th Annual Conference, Prorogation, Exclusion and Crisis: Shakespeare appropriation in John Crowne’s "The Misery of Civil War" (1681). 2020
Oral presentation, Chetham’s Library, Mancheste, Reading the Reformation Conference (Invited Speaker), Nicolas Bownde, "The Doctrine of the Sabbath", (1595): reading with your ears. 2019
Oral presentation, Bangor University, Bangor Conference on the Restoration, ‘“His Time was short, and yours is coming on; Old Oliver had his”: remembering and forgetting the civil war’. 2019
Oral presentation, Washington DC, Approaches to Aphra Behn’s The Rover: Text, Teaching and Performance’, Shakespeare Association of America 47th Annual Conference (invited speaker), ‘“both of one humour”: excess passion in The Rover’. 2019
Oral presentation, Magdalene College Cambridge, Literature and the Early Modern State (invited speaker), ‘William Cavendish, Virtue, Virtuosity, and the Image of the Courtier’. 2019
Oral presentation, The Bluecoat, Public lecture with Serena Korda, Under the Rose: Architecture and Secrecy at Speke Hall. 2019
Oral presentation, University of British Columbia, The Architecture of the Soundscape Workshop, Chair, moderator and closing remarks, roundtable discussion. 2019
Chair and Respondent, University of York, Early Modern Global Soundscapes’, ‘Voices, Books and Music’s Effects’ panel. 2019
Oral presentation, University of York, Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Research Seminar (invited speaker), ‘Rogues, Roundheads and Royalist Satire: Singing the Restoration’. 2019
Roundtable, University of Sheffield, Early Modern English Preaching c.1500-c.1700, Early Modern Sermons: Performances and Afterlives, closing roundtable discussion. 2018
Oral presentation, University of Sheffield, Plague, Pastors and Lunatics: Religion and the Circulation of Knowledge panel, Society for Renaissance Studies 8th Biennial Conference, ‘“I found then by this experience that which no Philosopher ever dreamed of”: Knowledge, Doubt and the Moon’. 2018
Oral presentation, Los Angeles, Time and Emotion Seminar, Shakespeare Association of America 46th Annual Conference, ‘“These be the humours that content me best”: time and [e]motion in John Lyly’s "The Woman in the Moon"’,. 2018
Oral presentation, Renaissance Societry of America Annual Conference, New Orleans, Making Milton: Print, Politics and Genre, Inscribing Textuality: Milton, Davenant, Authorship and the Performance of Print. 2018
Oral presentation, University of Geneva, Switzerland, CUSO Workshop: Restoration and the Long Eighteenth Century: Concept and Metaphor (Invited Speaker), Rumps, Songs and Revelry: the Stuart Restoration and Arbitrary Period Boundaries. 2017
Oral presentation, University of Cambridge, Remembering the Reformation, ‘he must be a Prelate as the Beast is’: Pope Laud. 2017
Oral presentation, LJMU, English Research Seminar (invited speaker), ‘he must be a Prelate as the Beast is’: Anti-Laudian Revelation. 2017
Oral presentation, Queen Mary, University of London, QMCRLE / CEMMN.net joint Research Seminar (invited speaker), Private Grief and Public Passions: Anatomising the King's Two Bodies. 2016
Oral presentation, University of Yamanshi, Kofu, Japan, Trust and Risk in Literature network meeting (invited speaker), ”Were not their eares to them, as pretious as your nostrils can be to you”: Sensing Trust, Sensing Authority. 2016
Oral presentation, University of Zurich, SAMEMES Conference: What is an Image in Medieval and Early Modern England?, Primates and portraits: the Visual (Mis)representation of William Laud. 2016
Oral presentation, Glasgow University, Society for Renaissance Studies 7th Biennial Conference, Family Ties and Textual Ruptures: Representing Rupert of the Rhine in the English Civil War. 2016
Oral presentation, Aarhus University, Denmark, Trust and Risk in Literature network meeting, 'Against his better knowledge not deceived': Trust, risk and the rhetoric of affect in "Paradise Lost". 2016
Oral presentation, University of Portsmouth, Bloody Passions: Extreme Emotions in Early Modern Literature and Culture, Anatomizing the King’s Two Bodies: Regicide and Bloody Passions. 2015
Oral presentation, University of Amsterdam, Compassion in Early Modern Culture conference (1550-1700), Private Grief and Public Passion: Remembering and Reinventing the English Civil War. 2015
Oral presentation, University of Newcastle, Voices and Books 1500-1800, “Without meditation all reading is vaine”: Hearing, Seeing and Sensing Words. 2015
Oral presentation, Vancouver, Shakespeare Association of America 43rd Annual Conference, Re/De-Polluting the Body Politic: Ballads on the Stage and Page. 2015
Oral presentation, Bangor University, School of English Literature Research Seminar (invited speaker), Lunar Travel and Lunacy: Reading the Early Modern Moon. 2015
Oral presentation, Berlin, Renaissance Society of America 61st Annual Conference, Old/New World Immunity: Mediating Kingship in "The History of Sir Francis Drake" (1659). 2015
Oral presentation, Birmingham, British Milton Seminar (invited speaker), The past, present and future of Milton Studies Roundtable Discussion. 2014
Oral presentation, University of Southampton, Society for Renaissance Studies 6th Biennial Conference, ‘“this reading of books is a pernicious thing”: Journeys of the Mind in The Emperor of the Moon (1687). 2014
Oral presentation, Bangor University, Early Modern Soundscapes, Restoring Rogues: Tudor Vagabonds and Roundhead Reputations. 2014
Oral presentation, Bangor University, Images of Kingship in Britain and Ireland, 1649-1714, Allegorical Uncertainty in "The Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru" (1656). 2013
Oral presentation, University of Sussex, Popes and the Papacy in Early Modern English Culture, Pope Laud. 2013
Oral presentation, Toronto, Shakespeare Association of America 41st Annual Conference, “The isle is full of noises”: Reconceptualising The Tempest. 2013
Oral presentation, Bangor University, On Page and Stage: Shakespeare, 1590-1890, “Of two good playes to make one bad”: Restoring Shakespeare. 2012
Oral presentation, Wales-wide videolink, Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS), (invited speaker), :‘New-Modelled Masques: (Re)presenting Colonialism in Late Seventeenth Century Entertainments. 2012
Oral presentation, University of Manchester, Society for Renaissance Studies 5th Biennial Conference, Reformed Drama: William Davenant and Literary Aesthetic. 2012
Oral presentation, Boston, Shakespeare Association of America 40th Annual Conference, The Royal Actor Revisited: Regicide, Narrative and Cultural Memory. 2012
Oral presentation, Royal Holloway, University of London, The Royal Body conference, Two Kings and No Bodies: Debating the Body Politic. 2012
Oral presentation, Birmingham, British Milton Seminar (invited speaker), :Inscribing Textuality: Milton, Anti-theatricalism and the Performance of Print’, British Milton Seminar, Birmingham. 2012
Conference organisation:
SRS Annual Lecture: Piety, Passion and Poetry in Seventeenth-Century Wales, https://www.rensoc.org.uk/event/piety-passion-and-poetry-in-seventeenth-century-wales/. 2024
Co-Organiser, Society for Renaissance Studies 10th Biennial Conference, https://www.rensoc.org.uk/event/srs-10th-biennial-conference/. 2023
Organiser, Soundscapes in the Early Modern World, https://emsoundscapes.co.uk/conference/. 2021
Performance and the Paper Stage, 1640-1695 seminar, Shakespeare Association of America 45th Annual Meeting, Atlanta. 2017
Organiser, Early modern Wales: Space, Place and Displacement. 2016
co-organiser, Travel and Conflict in the Medieval and Early Modern World. 2015
Other invited event:
Online, An online CPD roundtable discussion aimed at early career researchers and organised by King’s College London’s Centre for Early Modern Studies, 'Building Research Networks'. 2023
University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland (invited speaker), Lecture and the facilitating of a seminar mainly for PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers as part of a workshop organised under the auspices of the Conference Universitaire de Suisse Occidentale (CUSO) network of Swiss Universities, CUSO Workshop: Literary Utopia / Dystopia. 2021
University of Geneva, Switzerland, Lecture and the facilitating of a seminar mainly for PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers as part of a workshop organised under the auspices of the Conference Universitaire de Suisse Occidentale (CUSO) network of Swiss Universities., CUSO Workshop: Restoration and the Long Eighteenth Century: Concept and Metaphor. 2017
Editorial boards:
Editorial Board Member, Renaissance Studies, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14774658. 2023
Book Reviews Editor, Renaissance Studies, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1477-4658. 2014
Member of Scientific Committee, Etudes Epistémè, http://episteme.revues.org/. 2011
Membership of professional bodies:
English Association, Fellow, http://www.englishassociation.ac.uk/. 2021
Royal Historical Society, Fellow, https://royalhistsoc.org/. 2020
Renaissance Society of America, Member.
Shakespeare Association of America, Member.
Society for Renaissance Studies, Member (and Council Member).
Award:
Winner in the mid-career category, awarded to scholars who have made a significant contribution to research and also in recognition of collegiality, creativity and openness to ideas beyond the mainstream., London Renaissance Seminar Contributor Award. 2020
Sixteenth Century Society Prize and Conference, Roland H. Bainton Prize in Reference Works for "The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Early Modern England, c. 1530-1700", https://www.sixteenthcentury.org/prizes/bainton/. 2016
Research Grants Awarded:
Duration of research project: 19 Months, Grant value (£): 45,474, Arts and Humanities Research Council, Co-Investigator: Emilie Murphy, University of York, Soundscapes in the Early Modern World. 2018
External PGR Supervision - completed students:
PhD, Bangor University, Identity, Language and Landscape in Early Modern Literature from Wales and the Marches.. 2017
Teaching qualification:
FHEA. 2015
Fellowships:
Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC, Folger Short Term Fellowship. 2011
McGill University, Montreal, MaPs Summer Fellow. 2009