Academic staff

Academic Staff

Tara Alberts, BA, MA, PhD (Cantab)
History
Encounters and exchanges, Europe and Asia 1500-1700

Keith Allen, BA (Cambridge), MPhil, PhD (London)
Philosophy
Philosophy of Mind, Locke, Descartes

Monica Brito-Vieira, MA, PhD (Cantab)
Politics
Hobbes and ideas of representation

Judith Buchanan, BA (Bristol), DPhil (Oxon)
English
Shakespeare, film, performance

Stuart Carroll, BA (Bristol), PhD (London)
History
Religion and Violence in France; Neighbourliness & Community in France, Germany, England and Italy

John Cooper, MA, DPhil (Oxon), AM (Pennsylvania)
History
Religion, propaganda and monarchy in England

Michael Cordner, MA (Cantab)
Theatre, Film & Television
Renaissance and Restoration drama

Brian Cummings, MA, PhD (Cantab)
Anniversary Professor, English
Shakespeare, history of religion, history of the book

Tania Demitriou, BA, MA, PhD
English
EM literature and classical reception, Shakespeare

Simon Ditchfield, BA (York), MPhil, PhD (Warburg Inst)
History
Perceptions and uses of the past, Italian Counter-Reformation

Ziad Elmarsafy, BA (Cornell), MA (Johns Hopkins), PhD (Emory)
English
Political discourse, encounters with Islam

Jonathan Finch, BA, MA, PhD (UEA)
Archaeology
Historic landscapes and church archaeology in England

Anthony Geraghty, BA (Birmingham), MA (London), PhD (Cantab)
History of Art
Architecture and architectural drawing in England

Kate Giles, BA, MA, DPhil (York)
Archaeology
Civic and ecclesiastical buildings in England

Natasha Glaisyer, BA (Canterbury, NZ), PhD (Cantab)
History
Cultures of commerce in England

Helen Hills, BA (Oxon), MA, PhD (London)
History of Art
Baroque architecture (Italy); the idea of 'baroque'; gender, religious devotion and architecture in post-Tridentine Italy

Robert Hollingworth, (New College, Oxford)
Anniversary Reader, Music
Founder of ensemble I Fagiolini

Mark Jenner, BA, DPhil (Oxon)
History
History of the body, conceptions of cleanliness, London

Amanda Jones, MA, DPhil (Oxon)
Borthwick Institute
Popular protest in England; archives and palaeography

Kevin Killeen, BA, MA, PhD (London)
English
Early modern science, seventeenth century historiography, sermon culture and iconoclasm

Amanda Lillie, BA (Auckland), MA, PhD (London)
History of Art
Art and architecture in Italy, Florentine villas

Chris Langley, BA, MA (Birmingham), PhD (Aberdeen)
History
Scottish religious culture and protestant identities in 17th century

Jeanne Nuechterlein, MA, PhD (Berkeley)
History of Art
Religious and secular imagery in Northern European art

Varsha Panjwani, PhD (York)
Theatre, Film & TV
Renaissance Drama

Graham Parry, MA (Cantab), PhD (Columbia)
English
Relationship between literature and the visual arts, Milton

Liz Prettejohn, BA (Harvard) MA, PhD (Courtauld Inst)
History of Art
Receptions of ancient, medieval and Renaissance art

John Roe, BA (Cantab), MA, PhD (Harvard)
English
English and Italian literature: Petrarch, Machiavelli, Shakespeare

Richard Rowland, BA (York), MPhil, PhD (Oxon)
English
Renaissance and Classical drama, editing and performance

Peter Seymour, BA, DMusic (York)
Music
Baroque and Classical music, performance practice, rhetoric

James Sharpe, BA, DPhil (Oxon)
History
Social and cultural history, witchcraft and crime

Erica Sheen, AGSM, BA, PhD (London)
English
Shakespeare, film studies, law and literature

Bill Sheils, BA (York), PhD (London)
History
English Reformation, nonconformity and recusancy, agrarian and urban space

Bill Sherman, BA (Columbia), MPhil, PhD (Cantab)
English
Books and readers, travel writing, Renaissance drama

Helen Smith, MA (Glasgow), PhD (York)
English
History of the book, Renaissance literature, feminist theory

Tim Stanton, BA (Leicester), MA (York), PhD (Leicester)
Politics
Political philosophy, history of toleration, Locke

Tom Stoneham, MA (Oxon), MPhil, PhD (London)
Philosophy
Metaphysics and epistemology, especially idealism and theories of perception

Luke Uglow, BA (Nottingham), MSc, PhD (Edinburgh)
History of Art
Historiography of Italian Renaissance Art

Jonathan Wainwright, MA (Dunelm), PhD (Cantab)
Music
Italian and English music, performance practice, patronage

Geoffrey Wall, BA (Sussex), BPhil (Oxon)
English
Rabelais, Shakespeare, Milton, psychoanalysis, life-writing

Christopher Webb, BA (Dunelm), MA (York)
Borthwick Institute
Paleography and archives

Sophie Weeks,
History

Helen Weinstein
Visiting Research Professor, Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past (IPUP)
Partnership projects with heritage groups, museums, galleries & the media

Catherine Wilson, BA (Yale), BPhil (Oxford), PhD (Princeton)
Anniversary Chair, Philosophy
Early Modern philosophy, epicureanism, Lucretius, Descartes

David Wootton, MA, PhD (Cantab), FRHistS
History
Intellectual and cultural history, medicine, political thought, drama

Cordula van Wyhe, MA, PhD (London)
History of Art
Baroque art in the Netherlands and France, patronage and court culture

Post Docs/Associates

Postdoctoral Fellows and Researchers

Piers Brown (piers.brown@gmail.com) is at CREMS on a post-doctoral fellowship funded by the SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada).  He is working with William Sherman on "Donne and the situation of literate work in early modern England" and revising his dissertation on Donne and early modern Astronomy for publication.  He recently received a Distinguished Publication Award from the John Donne Society for his article on Donne's Courtier's Library.

Abigail Shinn (as1093@york.ac.uk) is a research fellow on the ‘Conversion Narratives’ project. She received her PhD from the University of Sussex in 2009, and has published, and given research papers, on Edmund Spenser, the popular press, and the almanac tradition in early modern England. As part of the Conversion Narratives project, Abi will publish a book-length study of conversion in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland.

Peter Mazur (pam508@york.ac.uk) is a research fellow on the ‘Conversion Narratives’ project. He received his PhD from Northwestern University in 2008. He has published, and given research papers, on conversion and the inquisition in Italy, with a particular focus on the melting-pot which was early modern Naples. As part of the Conversion Narratives project, Peter will publish a book-length study of conversion in Italy.

Research Associates

Susan Vincent was awarded her PhD byYork, on the cultural history of dress in Early Modern England, and has now expanded her research interests to include dress practices up to the present day. Currently she is working as the General Editor for a dress series forthcoming from Berg, and as a part of this is authoring a volume on Hair.  Her two previous books are Dressing the Elite: Clothes in Early Modern England (2003) and The Anatomy of Fashion: Dressing the Body from the Renaissance to Today (2009).

Svenn-Arve Myklebost (known as Sam; svennarve@gmail.com) is a research fellow at the University of Bergen, working on a PhD dissertation on the adaptation of plays by William Shakespeare, primarily into comic book and manga form. He visited CREMS on a WUN Research Mobility Programme, under the supervision of Bill Sherman.

Simon Sandall (ss659@york.ac.uk)  was a research assistant on the Church Court Cause Papers project at the Borthwick Institute for Archives, and is now associated with further work to promote the project's findings.

Rachel Willie (rachel.willie@york.ac.uk) completed her PhD on Commonwealth and Restoration Drama in 2009 in the Department of English and Related Literature and is currently revising it for publication by Manchester University Press. Rachel helped to run the Bible in the Seventeenth Century Conference (York, July 2011). Her research interests lie broadly in seventeenth century literary history and culture. In October 2011 she was appointed to a temporary lectureship at Bangor University.

Helen Pierce (h.pierce@abdn.ac.uk) held a postdoctoral fellowship with CREMS 2005-8 working towards the publication of her doctoral thesis. Helen works on British art of the early modern period (c.1550-1750), with a particular focus on the interplay between printed images, propaganda and polemic across the seventeenth century. Her monograph Unseemly Pictures: Graphic Satire and Politics in Early Modern England (Yale University Press) redresses an established art historical bias privileging genres such as elite portraiture over printed media, and challenges the presence of a pervasive 'iconophobia' in post-Reformation English culture. She is now working on two interrelated projects, one being a study of prints and politics during the Restoration period, the other looking at the artistic activities and networking of the late seventeenth-century York Virtuosi.  Helen has received grants and fellowships from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Huntington Library and the Scouloudi Foundation. She is currently works as a Teaching Fellow in History of Art at Aberdeen University.