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Research Interests / Recherche

Emma holds a BA in English and an MA in English Literary Research from the University of Leicester, England. She has also studied at L’Università di Torino, Italy. Emma's PhD thesis was entitled 'Shakespeare Alterations of the Exclusion Crisis, 1678-1682: Politics, Rape, and Authorship' (http://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:20357). She is currently working on a monograph called Shakespeare in the Restoration.

Emma’s research interests lie in Renaissance and Restoration drama, with a particular focus on Shakespeare’s posthumous history, Restoration versions of Renaissance plays, sexual politics, the staging of sexual violence, and Interregnum and Restoration Drolls. Emma has an abiding interest in the radical redefinition of gender roles found in literature of the Exclusion Crisis.

Publications

Books and Monographs / Livres et monographies

Shakespeare in the Restoration (in progress)

Selected Articles and Chapters / Sélection d'articles et de chapitres

‘Authorship and Alteration: Shakespeare on the Exclusion Crisis Stage and Page, 1678-1682’, in Medieval and Early Modern Authorship, ed. by Lukas Erne and Guillemette Bolens (Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature) 25 (Tübinger: Gunter Narr, 2011), 199-213 (http://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:20285).

Forthcoming / En voie de publication

‘The Politics of Rape in Shakespeare Alterations of the Exclusion Crisis: Nahum Tate’s The History of King Lear, 1681’, in Renaissance Shakespeare: Shakespeare Renaissances, Proceedings of the 9th World Shakespeare Conference, ed. by Michael Dobson, Andreas Höfele, Martin Procházka, and Hanna Scolnicov (Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, Forthcoming, 2012).

‘Playbills, Prologues and Playbooks: Selling Shakespeare Alterations of the Exclusion Crisis, 1678-1682’, in Philological Quarterly. Special Issue. Forthcoming, 2012. 

Gill, Catie. Review of: Theatre and Culture in Early Modern England, 1650-1737: From Leviathan to Licensing Act. In: Theatre Journal. Forthcoming, May 2012.

Luckyj, Christina. Review of: The Duchess of Malfi: A Critical Guide. Andrew Hiscock. Review of: Women Beware Women: A Critical Guide. Forthcoming.

Smith, Helen. Review of: Grossly Material Things: Women and Book Production in Early Modern England. Forthcoming.

Recent Papers / Conférences récentes

‘“A Nest of Nunnes Egges, Strangely Hatched”: Pregnancy, Miscarriage, and Female Transgression in Anti-Catholic Propaganda of the Late 1670s and Early 1680s’, at Literature, Science and Medicine in the Medieval and Early Modern English Periods, Lausanne University, June 2012.

Seminar Participant, ‘Visual Studies and Early Modern Drama’ Seminar, Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, April, 2012.

‘Fighting with ‘Womens Weapons, Piety and Pray’rs’: Passive Obedience in Nahum Tate’s The History of King Lear (1681)’, at ‘Prayer and Performance: Acts of Belief as Symbolic Communication in the late Medieval and Renaissance Period’, Aarhus University, Denmark, April 2012.

Seminar Participant, 'Civil War in Shakespeare, His Contemporaries, and His Successors' Seminar, International Shakespeare Association World Congress (July, 2011)

Seminar Particpant, 'Shakespeare for Sale' Seminar, Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting (April, 2011)

‘Failed Rape and Ideal Masculinity: Tory Values at play in Nahum Tate’s The History of King Lear, 1681’ at the Centre for Seventeenth-century Studies Conference ‘Ideals and Values in the Seventeenth Century’ in Durham, UK, July 2010.

‘Authorising Adaptation, (Re)Authoring Shakespeare: Censorship, Adaptation and Textual Possession in Shakespeare Adaptations of the Exclusion Crisis, 1678-82’ at the Medieval and Early Modern Authorship (SAMEMES) Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, June, 2010.

'From Street to Stage: Women and the Performance of Anti-Catholic Propaganda in the Aftermath of the 1678 Popish Plot' at the 3è Cycle Conference ‘Women and the Theatre’ in Geneva, Switzerland, October 2008.

‘“Wrest[ing] an Alphabet” from Shakespeare’s “Speechless Complainer”: Re-writing Lavinia for the Exclusion Crisis’ at the 3è Cycle Conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, February 2007.

‘Filmer, Patriarcha and Filial Piety in Nahum Tate’s 1681 Adaptation of King Lear’ at the 3e Cycle Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, June 2006.

‘Rape and Rhetoric in Nahum Tate’s 1681 Adaptation of King Lear’ at the Shakespeare and his Collaborators over the Centuries Conference in Brno, Czech Republic, February 2006.

Reviews / Comptes rendus

Greenstadt, Amy. Review of: Rape and the Rise of the Author: Gendering Intention in Early Modern England. In: English Studies: A Journal of the English Language. 92 (2011): 1107-109.

Oakley-Brown, Liz. Review of: Ovid and the Cultural Politics of Translation in Early Modern England. In: English Studies: A Journal of the English Language. 88 (2007): 234-5.

Research Scholarships / Bourses de recherche

April 2012 – SAUTE Travel Award to work at Harvard University’s Houghton Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

July 2011 – Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences Travel Award to attend the World Shakespeare Congress, Prague, 17-22 July, 2011

April 2011 – Shakespeare Association of America Graduate Student Travel Award to attend the SAA Annual Meeting in Bellevue, Washington

June 2009 – August 2009: SAUTE Travel Award to work at The Huntington Library, San Marino, California

June 2008 – December 2008: Fonds National Suisse (FNS) Bourse de recherche pour chercheuses et chercheurs débutants to work at The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles, California