Project Team
Lukas Erne
Lukas Erne is Professor of English Literature at the University of Geneva. He is the author of Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist (CUP, 2003; 2nd edn 2013), Shakespeare and the Book Trade (CUP, 2013), Shakespeare’s Modern Collaborators (Continuum, 2008), and Beyond ‘The Spanish Tragedy’: A Study of the Works of Thomas Kyd (Manchester UP, 2001), and the editor of The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Textual Studies (Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2021) and Textual Performances: The Modern Reproduction of Shakespeare’s Drama (with M.J. Kidnie, CUP, 2004). He has edited Bel-vedére, or the Garden of the Muses: An Early Modern Printed Commonplace Book (with Devani Singh, CUP, 2020), the two-volume Early Modern German Shakespeare edition, ‘Hamlet’ and ‘Romeo and Juliet’: ‘Der Bestrafte Brudermord’ and ‘Romio und Julieta’ in Translation (with Kareen Seidler), and ‘Titus Andronicus’ and ‘The Taming of the Shrew’: ‘Tito Andronico’ and ‘Kunst über alle Künste, ein bös Weib gut zu machen’ in Translation (with Florence Hazrat and Maria Shmygol, Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2020, 2022), and The First Quarto of Romeo and Juliet (CUP, 2007). He has won the Calvin & Rose G. Hoffman Prize (twice) and the Roma Gill Award for essays on Christopher Marlowe. He was the J.P.R. Lyell Reader in Bibliography at the University of Oxford where he gave the Lyell Lectures in 2012. He is a Fellow of the English Association.
For access to some of his publications in the institutional repository of the University of Geneva, see here.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9945-7910
Charlotte Potter
Charlotte is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Geneva. She completed her AHRC-funded PhD in English Literature at the University of Sussex in 2022, with a thesis entitled ‘Unfixed Virginity: Metaphor and Defloration in Early Modern Drama’. She also holds an MPhil in Renaissance Literature from Newnham College, Cambridge (2017), and an MA in English Literature from the University of St Andrews (2015). Her thesis explored the relationship between metaphor and virginity in early modern culture, with a focus on Shakespearean drama. It argued that virginity was an inherently destabilizing and imaginative concept, and that writers, especially playwrights, capitalise on this instability in their plays. She develops an account of virginity as ‘unfixed’ by examining puzzling and paradoxical examples from Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well, Romeo and Juliet, and Henry V, as well as Thomas Middleton and William Rowley’s The Changeling. Her approach of ‘unfixed virginity’ reflects how virginity was circulating at a broad imaginative level across culture, a metaphorical concept produced within a patriarchal social context. She is currently developing the thesis into a monograph, and looks forward to teaching an MA seminar in Spring 2024 based on this research. Her current research builds on her doctoral work to take her theory of ‘unfixed virginity’ beyond analysis of female virginity in Shakespeare’s plays to early modern poetry more broadly.
Andy Reilly
Andy is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Geneva. He holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Lausanne, which he completed in 2022 with a thesis entitled “William Shakespeare’s Hamlet in Publication and Performance, 1709–1735”. He also holds an MA in English Literature from the University of Lausanne (2017), a Masters in Education (Applied Linguistics) from the Open University (2015), and a BA in Drama and Theatre Arts from Goldsmiths College, University of London (2003). He has published articles in Modern Philology and Notes and Queries and is a co-author of Qu'est-ce qu'un personnage (with Kevin Curran, Vincent Laughery and Josefa Terribilini, Epistemé, 2023). He is passionate about theatrical performance and has acted in a number of plays staged at the Lausanne Shakespeare Festival and the Fécule Festival at the University of Lausanne, including Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Hamlet. In 2020, he directed a production of Meet Me at Dawn by Zinnie Harris that was performed at both the Fécule Festival and the Friscènes International Theatre Festival in Fribourg. His current research interests include book history, textual editing, theatre history, and Shakespeare in publication during the eighteenth century.