Département de langue et littérature anglaises

Additional Information / Informations supplémentaires

Office and Office Hour / Bureau et Heure de réception

Research Interests / Recherches

Antoinina Bevan Zlatar holds a BA in English from the University of Oxford, a DES, and a Doctorate in early modern literature and Reformation history from the University of Geneva. Since 2004 she has been a lecturer at the University of Zürich, and fortunate enough to teach Sidney, Shakespeare, Spenser and Milton. Her research interests include early modern genre theory, rhetoric, religious culture and the history of reading, with a focus on John Milton. She is Treasurer of the Swiss Association of Medieval and Early Modern English Studies.

Publications

Reformation Fictions: Protestant Polemical Dialogues in Elizabethan England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Articles

‘Reforming Eve’s Sin: Milton and the Mystery Cycles’ in The Construction of Textual Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Literature. SPELL: Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature 22. Ed. Indira Ghose and Denis Renevey. Tübingen: Narr, 2009. 201-216.

“‘Unclean spirits like frogs’: polemical Protestant dialogues and the Campion Affair” in Writing and Reform in Sixteenth-Century England. Ed. John Blakeley and Mike Pincombe. Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 2008. 51-74.

Reviews / Comptes rendus

Peter Marshall, Religious Identities in Henry VIII’s England. Ashgate, 2006. In Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance , 69, 2007. 523-525.

Matthieu Arnold, La correspondance de Luther. Philipp von Zabern, 1996. In Revue de Théologie et de Philosophie, 131, 1999. 237-238.

Translations / Traductions

Articles by D. Bertrand, J.-L. Quantin and D.-O. Hurel in The Reception of the Church Fathers in the West, ed. I. Backus, Leiden: Brill, 1997.

Conference Papers and Lectures / Présentations

2011 International Conference on the Bible in the Seventeenth Century, York: ‘Like an Owl in the Desert: the Bible in Lady Anne Clifford’s diaries and portraits’.

2008 Lecture at English Department, University of Fribourg: ‘Milton and the Mysteries’.

2008 First International Conference of the Swiss Association of Medieval and Early Modern English Studies, Bern: ‘Reforming Eve’s Sin: Milton and the Mystery Cycles’. Plenary Speaker.

2007 Lecture at the Centre for Renaissance Studies, Zurich: ‘Between Renaissance and Reformed: the Poetics of John Milton's Paradise Lost’.

2006 3e Cycle Conference, Geneva: ‘Protestant Polemic, Pleasant Dialogues and the Nature of Fiction’.

2003 Third Tyndale Society Conference, Geneva: ‘Protestant versus Protestant: Anthony Gilby and the Vestments Controversy of 1563-7’.

2002 Third International Conference of the Tudor Symposium, Newcastle: ‘“Unclean Spirits Like Frogs”: Polemical Protestant Dialogues and the Campion Affair’.

1999 Lecture at the Institut d’Histoire de la Réformation, Geneva: ‘Les dialogues dans les controverses religieuses élisabéthaines: George Gifford, dialoguiste et catéchiste’.