Département de langue et littérature anglaises

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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, and has conducted research at The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles, and The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.

Emma’s research interests lie in Renaissance and Restoration drama, particularly in the staging of sexual violence, and in political alterations of Shakespeare's plays. Her PhD thesis, entitled 'Shakespeare Alterations of the Exclusion Crisis, 1678-1682: Politics, Rape, and Authorship', explores the way in which Shakespeare's plays were rewritten in response to the Exclusion Crisis of 1678-1682.

Forthcoming / En voie de publication

‘Authorship and Alteration: Shakespeare on the Exclusion Crisis Stage and Page, 1678-1682’. SPELL (Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature).

Recent Papers / Conférences récentes

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

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