The University of Sheffield is home to many postgraduate research students whose thesis topic and research interests engage with the early modern period broadly conceived.
Guide to abbreviations
British Library: www.bl.uk
CDA: Collaborative Doctoral Award (involving an external partner)
Leverhulme: The Leverhulme Trust
Wolfson: Wolfson Foundation
The following students are currently pursuing doctoral research and can be contacted through SCEMS. Where possible, a link to their individual research profiles has been given.
Ella Alton
Imagining the Cloister in English Drama, Estate Poetry, and Cheap Print, 1611-1800
Supervisor: Marcus Nevitt (English), Emma Rhatigan (English)
Grace Mold
An Intersectional Approach to Contemporary Theatrical Revisions of Shakespeare
Supervisor: Frances Babbage (English), Tom Rutter (English),
Michael Broughton
The Language of War: Elizabethan Military Discourse and Culture in Print
Supervisor: Phil Withington (History)
Rama Friedlander
Shakespeare and the elements
Supervisor: Tom Rutter (English)
Jamie Graves
Emotions and Social Status in Early Modern England.
Supervisor: Phil Withington (History)
WRoCAH
Becky Herd
Violence and Gender in the Tragedies and Tragicomedies of Seventeenth-Century French Female Playwrights (1655-1691)
Supervisor: David McCallum and Maxime Goergen (School of Languages and Cultures)
Mark Jones
‘Riot’ in Early Modern England: Language, Violence, and Inequality
Supervisor: Phil Withington
Lucy Morgan
Single men and manhood in early modern England, 1650-1750
Supervisor: Phil Withington (History)
Emily Naish
‘Of Albion’s glorious Isle the Wonders whilst I write’: Poly-Olbion’s relationship to the natural world
Supervisor: Cathy Shrank (English)
Thomas Nixon-Roworth
Clergy and lay relations in mid-seventeenth century England, 1640-1672
Supervisor: Anthony Milton
Maria Pace Acquilina
The education and representation of women in early Tudor England
Supervisor: Cathy Shrank (English)
Leonie Price
Initials, Goods and Buildings: Marriage as a Material and Social Practice in Early Modern England
Supervisor: Phil Withington (History)
WRoCAH
Hannah Slack
Supervisor: Tom Leng (History)
Kay Tapply
A social and intellectual biography of Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland.
Supervisors: Phil Withington; Tom Leng (History)
Joe Tryner
Entrate nel fuoco: Popular Politics in Early Renaissance Florence
Supervisor: James Shaw (History)
WRoCAH
The significance of the Commission on Fees (1627-1640) and conceptions of Monarchical Paternalism to State Formation in early modern England
Supervisor: Anthony Milton (History)