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Shakespeare's Globe Book Award
Posted on 9 November 2020
A huge congratulations to Lieke from the CREMS community.
An interview with her will be posted in the near future. You can find out more about the award on the Shakespeare's Globe website.
Lieke Stelling studied English literature at the University of Utrecht and University College London and comparative literature at the University of Utrecht. She completed her PhD at the University of Leiden in 2013 before returning to Utrecht in 2015. Lieke's research interests include sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature, Shakespeare, religious conversion, humour and religion, and early modern European consciousness.
Lieke’s first monograph, Religious Conversion in Early Modern English Drama (Cambridge University Press, 2019), was runner-up for the Shakespeare's Globe Book Award 2020. Her new book project is tentatively titled, “Faith in Jest: Humour and the Literature of the English Reformation,” and focuses on inclusive and tension-relieving aspects of humour in relation to religious conflict and anxiety. This project was awarded a Veni grant by The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), in 2016. A related project, on jest books, was supported by a fellowship from the Huntington Library in 2018.
She is co-editor of The Turn of the Soul: Representations of Religious Conversion in Early Modern Art and Literature (Brill, 2012), and her articles have appeared in English Literary Renaissance and Shakespeare Jahrbuch. Lieke is a research affiliate with the Early Modern Conversions project at McGill, and a member of the Utrecht Young Academy.
