PhD research

My research examines the various connections between Andrew Marvell and privacy: his attitude towards print; private lives; and privacy as a theme within his writing. My thesis identifies an ideology of privacy in the seventeenth century and posits Marvell as an important witness to this important development of his age. Investigating this under-explored social context of privacy and Marvell’s interaction with it, I suggest that he represents a sui generis model of private authorship: someone who writes only for himself.

Supervisor

Professor Martin Dzelzainis

Publications

'Marvell in Manuscript and Print, 1649-1665', in Janet Clare (ed.), From Republic to Restoration: Legacies and Departures (Manchester University Press, forthcoming).

'Religion, Print and Visual Culture in the Early Modern Period: East Midlands Early Modern Colloquium 2011, De Montfort University', Bulletin of the Society of Renaissance Studies, 28.2 (2011), 24-26.

Review : Blair Worden, Literature and Politics in Cromwellian England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), and Jason McElligott, Royalism, Print and Censorship in Revolutionary England (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2007), English Studies, 90.3 (2009), 368-371.

Conference papers

'Marvell and Private Lives', Doctoral Workshop in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Geneva, 5_^th October 2011.

'Introducing Marvell in Manuscript and Print', SPELL Postgraduate Forum, University of Leicester, 2_^nd December 2010.

'Marvell in Manuscript and Print: The Public and Private Experiences of 1649-1660', From Republic to Restoration: Legacies and Depatures, Andrew Marvell Centre, University of Hull, 6_^th July 2010.

'Denying Authorship: Marvell, Maniban, and the Quest for Privacy', SAMEMES Medieval and Early Modern Authorship, University of Geneva, 30_^th June 2010.

'Change and Continuity in the Ideology and Practice of Privacy in Seventeenth-Century England', Revolution and Restoration: Change and Continuity in the British Isles, 1640-1670, Selwyn College, Cambridge, 10_^th January 2009.

'One of the Three: Marvell’s Publication Dilemma', Origins: Medieval and Early Modern English Texts and Contexts, University of Fribourg, 4_^th April 2008.

Awards and scholarships

2010-2012: Fee Waiver Scholarship, University of Leicester.

2009-2010: Bradley de Glehn Scholarship, Royal Holloway, University of London.

2007-2009: Research Studentship, University of Geneva, 2007-2009.

Professional memberships

Swiss Association of Medieval and Early Modern English Studies (SAMEMES).

Teaching 

2011: 'English Literature and English Culture' (for the International Office).

2007-2009: 'Analysis of Texts: Introduction to Drama and Poetry', 'The Poetry of Andrew Marvell', and 'Literature and the English Civil War' (for the University of Geneva).