University of Southampton

Department Member, School of Humanities

Visiting Fellow

About

I completed my BA (in English) and my MA (in Renaissance Studies) at Queen Mary, University of London and my PhD at the University of Southampton.

My research interests include sixteenth-century drama and performance, material culture, manuscripts and social and professional networks.  I am particularly interested in the representation of artistic networks in manuscript. 

My most recent research focused on the social and professional networks represented by a mid sixteenth-century manuscript in the British Library (BL Add. MS 15233), containing music, poetry and fragments of plays attributed to John Redford, Almoner, Organist and Master of the Choirboys at St. Paul’s Cathedral, as well as poems by a number of other mid-Tudor poets.

I am currently working on a new project examining performance in a London parish during the early to mid sixteenth century.

I am also the founder and manager of the research network 'Manuscript Culture, 1450-1700', based in the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture at the University of Southampton (see website link on this page). The aim of the network is to provide opportunities for genuine interdisciplinary discussion which will enable scholars to share both theoretical perspectives and practical approaches to working with Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, recognizing them as material objects with diverse cultural implications.

Please do get in touch if you are interested in becoming a member of the network.

The next network meeting and manuscript workshop will be held at Merton College, Oxford on Thursday 21st June 2012, and will be run by Dr. Julia Walworth, Fellow Librarian.  This will be a hands-on session on the materiality of Medieval manuscript books - bindings, parchment, script, layout, decoration,etc.                                                   
We have a limited number of places available for this workshop, so if you would like to attend, please email Elizabeth Sandis (elizabeth.sandis@merton.ox.ac.uk) as soon as possible.  Places will be allocated on a first come first served basis.

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