Postgraduate researchers

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

• AHRC: Arts and Humanities Research Council

• British Library: www.bl.uk

• CDA: Collaborative Doctoral Award (involving an external partner)

• Leverhulme: The Leverhulme Trust

• MARI: Music in the Art of Renaissance Italy

• Wolfson: Wolfson Foundation

• WRoCAH: White Rose College of the Arts and Humanities

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

• Cameron Whiteside

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)