Staff and Fellows of the Centre for Early Modern Studies at the University of Sheffield
(in alphabetical order)
Name | Department or School | Research interests |
Dr Rachel ASKEW | Archaeology | History | English Civil War archaeology; castle studies; material culture |
Professor Michael BRADDICK | History | Early modern England; state in early modern England, 1550-1700 |
Dr Joe BRAY | English | Stylistics; The 18th century Novel; experimental literature |
Dr Alan BRYSON | English | HRI | Early modern British history; Renaissance literature |
Dr James BROWN | History | HRI | Drinking and sociability in early modern England |
Dr James COOK | Music | English music; cultural exchange; music for film and TV |
Dr Sarah DEWAR-WATSON | English | Early modern English drama; classical reception; comparative literature |
Dr Jeremy DUNHAM | Philosophy | Pragmatism, Idealism, Early Modern and 19th c. French Philosophy |
Dr Katherine FENNELLY | Archaeology | early modern archaeology, public architecture, print culture, and materiality |
Dr Jim FITZMAURICE | English | Renaissance literature; early women writers; English country houses |
Professor Susan FITZMAURICE | English | Historical sociolinguistics; historical pragmatics; world Englishes |
Dr Nicky HALLETT | English | Women’s writing; auto/biography; medieval and early modern literature |
Dr Frances HARRIS | English | Early modern politics, religion, court studies; friendship |
Dr Eliza HARTRICH | History | late medieval Europe; urbanism, political language, rebellion, networks, and empire |
Professor Karen HARVEY | History | 18 c. cultural history; gender; the body; domestic interior |
Dr Iona HINE | English | HRI | Philology; bible translation; reformations |
Professor Angela HOBBS | Philosophy | Ancient Greek philosophy; ethics |
Dr Sharon HOWARD | History | HRI | Early modern crime and law, British history, women’s and gender history |
Dr Anne D. JAMES | History | Library | 17th c. patristic translations, editions, collaboration with European scholars |
Professor Simon KEEFE | Music | Late 18th c. style & aesthetics; Mozart; Haydn, Beethoven |
Professor Jacqueline LABBE | English | Faculty PVC | Late-18th-c. poetry and fiction, genre studies, women writers |
Dr Tom LENG | History | Intellectual history, commercial discourse and policy in 17th c. England |
Dr Hamish MATHISON | English | Robert Burns; print culture; Scottish poetry; 18th c. literature |
Professor Steve MAY | English | Renaissance literature, manuscript culture, editing |
Dr David McCALLAM | SLC | French | 18th c. French literature; culture; history of ideas; French Revolution |
Dr Louise McINNES | Music | Carols; British music; gender; music in social and political contexts |
Dr Angela McSHANE | History | V&A | RCA | Material culture, cultures of intoxication |
Dr Seth MEHL | English | HRI | Corpus linguistics, world Englishes, early modern English |
Dr Simon MIDDLETON | History | Colonial American social and cultural history |
Professor Anthony MILTON | History | 17th c. Anglo-Dutch relations; royalism; Church of England 1603-1700 |
Professor John MORELAND | Archaeology | The use of writing; the role of images; archaeology of the Reformation |
Dr Marcus NEVITT | English | Cheap Print; literature of the 1650s; Royalism; 17th c. journalism |
Dr Sally O’HALLORAN | Landscape History | |
Dr Caroline Dodds PENNOCK | History | Aztec, Spanish American & Atlantic history, cultural encounters |
Dr Sanna RANINEN | Music | Renaissance Music; music in art, manuscript studies, bibliography |
Dr Emma RHATIGAN | English | Early modern religious writing; sermons; John Donne |
Dr Gary RIVETT | History | History of Political Engagement in Western and African Societies |
Dr Tom RUTTER | English | Early modern drama; Shakespeare; Marlowe; playing companies |
Dr Gavin SCHWARTZ-LEEPER | English | 16th c. historiography; social authority & early English drama; early modern manuscript culture |
Dr James SHAW | History | Early Modern Italy; markets, law, ethics |
Dr Tim SHEPHARD | Music | Renaissance; the Italian courts from c. 1430 to 1530 |
Professor Robert SHOEMAKER | History | British social and cultural history, crime and punishment, London |
Professor Cathy SHRANK | English | Early Modern Literature; Dialogue; Sonnets; Humanism |
Dr Edward SMITH | English | Taught Programmes | Tudor verse, Manuscript Culture, Print Culture, Editing |
Dr Richard STEADMAN-JONES | English | Colonial culture; exile narratives; linguistic ideas; arts practice |
Dr Charlotte STEENBRUGGE | English | early modern theatre, Dutch and French drama, non-dramatic medieval literature |
Dr Rachel STENNER | English | Early Modern Drama; book history |
Dr Crosby STEVENS | History | Site-specific theatre; material culture; country houses |
Dr Felicity STOUT | History | Early modern travel and trade; history of forestry; Anglo-Russian relations in the Elizabethan period |
Mr Tim WALES | History | HRI | Poor relief, clerical history, intoxicants |
Professor Shearer WEST | History | Deputy VC |
18th-century British and Italian art; Victorian art |
Dr Graham T. WILLIAMS | English | (Im)politeness and pragmatics; English letters; digital corpora |
Dr Sean M. WILLIAMS | SLC | German | Hairdressing; print culture, literature and philosophy |
Dr Hugh B. WILLMOTT | Archaeology | Later medieval and early modern European archaeology |
Professor Phil WITHINGTON | History | Intoxicants and intoxication; early modern political culture |
Dr Jan WOUDSTRA | Landscape History | Anglo-Dutch interactions; theories of landscape; pre-modern China |
Dr Angela WRIGHT | English | Romanticism; gothic; 18th c. literature; translation; women’s writing |