Modern English Literature (16th - 18th Centuries)
Dr.
Louise
WILSON
Maître-assistante suppléante
Tel.:
+41 (0)22 379 78 69
Mail:
Additional Information / Informations supplémentaires
Office and Office Hour / Bureau et heure de réception
Research Interests / Recherches
Louise gained her BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature from Oxford University and her MA and PhD in English Renaissance Literature from the University of York. She taught in the English department at the University of York from 2004 to 2007 and has been a Visiting Lecturer in Renaissance History at the University of York St John. She is currently a maître assistante at the University of Geneva where she is participating in a research project under the directorship of Professor Lukas Erne, The Textual Life of William Shakespeare, 1593-1623. Louise’s teaching and research interests lie in early modern literature, and include European romance and other popular texts, humanism and theories of reading, Shakespeare, and the material and cultural history of the book.
Research Scholarships / Bourses de recherche
MHRA (Modern Humanities Research Association) conference grant, 2006.
AHRB (Arts and Humanities Research Board) doctoral award, 2001-2004.
Queen’s College Exhibition Fund, Benefactor’s Prize, 1999.
Forthcoming / En voie de publication
Books / Livres
(editor, with Helen Smith) Renaissance Paratexts.
Articles and Chapters / Articles et chapitres
‘Paratext as Camouflage: Positioning Prefaces in Iberian Romance Translations’ in Renaissance Paratexts, Helen Smith and Louise Wilson (eds).
Recent Papers / Présentations récentes
‘Romance paratexts and reading practices in early modern England’, ‘Early Modern Reading: Books, Communities, Conversations, University of Newcastle, April 2008.
‘”What the simple say I care not”: romance and reading practices in early modern England’, Popular Culture in the Early Modern World, University of Sussex, September 2007
‘Camouflaging Iberian romance in early modern France and England’, Renaissance Paratexts, University of York, July 2007.
‘”I never was any scholler”: excusing Iberian romance in early modern England’, Society for Renaissance Studies, Edinburgh University, July 2007.
‘”trifling toyes with true things”: history, exemplarity and the early modern Arthur’, Renaissance Lives, Roehampton University, October 2005.
‘”Combats full of falsehood”: history, narrative and “the gunpowder revolution’, University of York (Invited speaker), May 2004.