Jessica Clement
Research Associate

Profile

Biography

Jessica Clement completed her BA in English at UCLA and holds both her MA and PhD in English from the University of York. Her thesis explored Elizabeth Singer Rowe’s engagement with poetry as a means to convey various aspects of Dissent and her wider religious community.

Following maternity leave, Jessica is currently publishing articles on Dissenting theology, epic poetry, and politics during the years of the Restoration, as well as completing preliminary research for her first monograph on the study of Dissent and women’s writing, looking particularly at the intersection of melancholy and Calvinist theology.