Research Interests
Open to PhD applications across the broad spectrum of early modern Spanish literature /culture. The following fields are indicative: Early Modern Spanish poetry /poetics Lyric: theories / practice
Golden Age 'comedia' Legacy / reception of the Classics Cervantine Studies Comparative Literature
Public outreach & key achievements
- Corresponding Fellow of the Real Academia Española (admitted 2016)
- Shortlisted finalist in the Times Higher Education Awards, 2016, in the 'Outstanding Research Supervisor' category:
- Executive General Editor of the journal, Bulletin of Spanish Studies
- President of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland, 2015-2018
- International Panel Member – Estonian Research Council Regular Review of Research (2017)
- Member of Sub-panel Modern Languages and Linguistics, REF 2014 and REF 2020
- Member of the Royal Irish Academy (admitted 2019)
Research students
| PhD area | Twisted Bodies and Broken Minds: Representations of Physical and Intellectual Disability in Spanish Golden Age Drama and Art |
| Name | Emer O’Toole |
| Years of study | 2019-2022 |
| Country | UK |
| PhD area | The Ambition of Melancholy: The Aestheticisation of Heroism in the Lyric Poetry of Juan Boscán and Fernando de Herrera. |
| Name | Aislin Kearney |
| Years of study | 2015-2019 |
| Country | UK |
| PhD area | The Other You Are/Creative Translation: Revoicing Contemporary Spanish-Language Poetry in English [Supervisor of Critical Writing Component of Thesis] |
| Name | Caitlin Newby |
| Years of study | 2015-2018 |
| Country | USA |
Alumni: Where are they now
| PhD area | Early Modern Theatre and the Public Sphere, 1585-1702: Anglo-Dutch-Spanish Politics 2013-17 |
| Name | Sonja Kleij |
| Years of study | [Co-supervisor with colleague in English] |
| Country | Holland |
| Current Position | Lecturer Utrecht University |
| PhD area | Write in the Middle: A Study of Jean Bodin's De la Démonomanie des sorciers (1580) |
| Name | Jennifer Maguire |
| Years of study | 2012- 2015 |
| Country | UK |
| Current Position | Subject Manager (Studies in Language and Literature/Language Acquisition) at the International Baccalaureate |
| PhD area | The Signifying Self: Cervantine Drama as Counter-Perspective Aesthetic |
| Name | Melanie Henry |
| Years of study | 2008-2011 |
| Country | UK |
| Current Position | Lecturer in Golden Age Spanish, Durham University. |
Sample Theses published as monographs:
Lindsay Kerr, Luis de Góngora & Lope de Vega. Masters of Parody, Winner of the Tamesis AHGBI / Spanish Embassy Publication Prize (pub. 2017); Anne Holloway, The Potency of Pastoral in the Hispanic Baroque (Tamesis, 2017); Melanie Henry, The Signifying Self: Cervantine Drama as Counter-Perspective Aesthetic, Winner of the MHRA Doctoral Dissertation Prize (Pub. MHRA, 2013).