Leiden Academic Joins Conversion Narratives Team

Posted on 30 September 2011

A PhD candidate from the University of Leiden has won funding to join the Conversion Narratives team to further develop her research.

Lieke Stelling, who works on literary representations of religious conversion in early modern England, especially in drama, will spend three months in York, where she will be revising her dissertation, '"Thy very essence is mutability": Religious Conversion in Early Modern English Drama'. Lieke is co-editor, with Todd Richardson and Harald Hendrix, of The Turn of the Soul: Representations of Religious Conversion in Early Modern Art and Literature, which will be pubilshed by Brill in January 2012.

Lieke will be exchanging and discussing her research with members of the project team and of the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies. Lieke's visit is funded by the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the Jo Kolk Study Fund and the Leiden University Institute of Cultural Disciplines. Simon Ditchfield, one of the Principal Investigators of the project, commented: 'We are delighted to welcome Lieke to York and to have the opportunity to share our research with a scholar who is doing some very exciting work in this field. We hope this will be the first of several collaborations with colleagues across Europe'.