Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
- Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
- CREMS faculty
CREMS provides a forum for more than thirty academic staff and their postgraduates from eight leading departments at York, sharing strong affiliations with the departments of English, History, History of Art and Archaeology.
The Director of the Centre is
Kevin Killeen (Department of English and Related Literature)
Academic Staff
Tara Alberts, BA, MA, PhD (Cantab)
History
Encounters and exchanges, Europe and Asia 1500-1700
Keith Allen, MA (Cambridge), PhD (UCL)
Philosophy
Philosophy of perception (especially colour), early modern philosophy, phenomenology, and the philosophy of philosophy
Monica Brito Vieira, MA, PhD (Cantab)
Politics
Hobbes and ideas of representation
Sarah Brown, MA (York), FSA, FRHistS
History of Art, Director of York Glaziers Trust
Ecclesiastical architecture and stained glass
Stuart Carroll, BA (Bristol), PhD (London)
History
Religion and Violence in France; Neighbourliness & Community in France, Germany, England and Italy
John Cooper, MA, DPhil (Oxon), AM (Penn)
History
Religion, propaganda and monarchy in England
Michael Cordner, MA (Cantab)
Theatre, Film, Television and Interactive Media
Renaissance and Restoration drama
Brian Cummings, MA, PhD (Cantab)
Anniversary Professor, English
Shakespeare, history of religion, history of the book
Simon Ditchfield, BA (York), MPhil, PhD (Warburg)
History
Perceptions and uses of the past, Italian Counter-Reformation
Jonathan Finch, BA, MA, PhD (UEA)
Archaeology
Historic landscapes and church archaeology in England
Anthony Geraghty, BA (Birmingham), MA (London), PhD (Cantab)
History of Art
Architecture and architectural drawing in England
Kate Giles, BA, MA, DPhil (York)
Archaeology
Civic and ecclesiastical buildings in England
Natasha Glaisyer, BA (Canterbury, NZ), PhD (Cantab)
History
Cultures of commerce in England
Sarah Griffin, MSc (Aberystwyth)
Library and Archives
Special Collections; York Minster Library
Helen Hills, BA (Oxon), MA, PhD (Courtauld)
History of Art
Baroque architecture (Italy); the idea of 'baroque'; gender, religious devotion and architecture in post-Tridentine Italy
Robert Hollingworth, (New College, Oxford)
Anniversary Reader, Music
Founder of ensemble I Fagiolini
Ezra Horbury
English and Related Literature
Biblical adaptation, gendered embodiment, and queer theory in early modern drama and theology.
Katherine Hunt, PhD (Birkbeck)
History
Histories of art and science; material and the artisanal—matter and labour; early modern literary production
Mark A. Hutchinson, BA (Dublin) MLitt (St Andrews) PhD (Kent)
History
Early modern European cultural and intellectual history
Hannah Jeans, BA (Hons), MA, PhD (York)
History
Gender and literary history in 17th-century England, specifically focused on reading cultures and habits
Mark Jenner, BA, DPhil (Oxon)
History
History of the body, conceptions of cleanliness, London
Richard Johns, MA (Courtauld), PhD (York)
History of Art
Grand-scale decorative history painting; visual culture in the long eighteenth century
Amanda Jones, MA, DPhil (Oxon)
Borthwick Institute
Popular protest in England; archives and palaeography
Oliver Jones, MA, PhD (York)
Theatre, Film, Television and Interactive Media
Early Modern travelling players and performance space
Kevin Killeen, BA, MA, PhD (London)
English
Early modern science, seventeenth century historiography, sermon culture and iconoclasm
Amanda Lillie, BA (Auckland), MA, PhD (Courtauld)
History of Art
Art and architecture in Italy, Florentine villas
Emilie Murphy, BA, MA, PhD (York);
History
Soundscapes, Music and Religious Culture
Jeanne Nuechterlein, MA, PhD (Berkeley)
History of Art
Religious and secular imagery in Northern European art
Sarah Olive, PhD (Birmingham)
Education
The place of Shakespeare and his contemporaries in education
Liz Prettejohn, BA (Harvard) MA, PhD (Courtauld Inst)
History of Art
Receptions of ancient, medieval and Renaissance art
Jane Raisch, BA (Univ of Pennsylvania), PhD. (Univ of California, Berkeley)
English
The literature of C16 and C17 England and Europe; the reception of the classical world
Namratha Rao, BA, MSt, and DPhil (Oxford)
English
The literature of C.16 and C.17 with interests in allegory, poetry and poetics, and theories; histories of embodiment, affect, medicine and science.
Anna Reynolds, BA, MPhil (Cantab), PhD (York)
English
The history of paper, the book, and waste
Jessica Richardson, BA (Gonzaga University), MA (University of Washington), MA and PhD (Courtauld Institute of Art)
History of Art
Italian art c.1300–1550; Materiality and the agency of matter
Richard Rowland, BA (York), MPhil, PhD (Oxon)
English
Renaissance and Classical drama, editing and performance
Peter Seymour, BA, DMusic (York)
Music
Baroque and Classical music, performance practice, rhetoric
Erica Sheen, AGSM, BA, PhD (London)
English
Shakespeare, film studies, law and literature
Freya Sierhuis, PhD (Florence)
English
Intellectual and literary history of England and Dutch Republic; emotions in EM culture
Helen Smith, MA (Glasgow), PhD (York)
English
History of the book, Renaissance literature, feminist theory
Elizabeth Spencer, BA Hons, MA, PhD (University of York)
History
Gender, social, and material history of England, 1680-1830
Tim Stanton, BA (Leicester), MA (York), PhD (Leicester)
Politics
Political philosophy, history of toleration, Locke
Laura Stewart, MA (St Andrews), MSc. PhD (Edinburgh)
History
Scottish Political Culture; State Formation & Political Communication
Tom Stoneham, MA (Oxon), MPhil, PhD (London)
Philosophy
Metaphysics and epistemology, especially idealism and theories of perception
Tim Stuart-Buttle, PhD (Oxford)
Politics
Early modern European intellectual history, and the history of political thought
Jonathan Wainwright, MA (Dunelm), PhD (Cantab)
Music
Italian and English music, performance practice, patronage
Geoffrey Wall, BA (Sussex), BPhil (Oxon)
English
Rabelais, Shakespeare, Milton, psychoanalysis, life-writing
Sophie Weeks, MA, PhD (Leeds)
History
Early modern intellectual history; the history of science.
Lauren Working, BA (St Andrew's), MA (London), DPhil (Durham)
English
Elizabethan and Jacobean literary sociability, politics, and empire
David Wootton, MA, PhD (Cantab), FRHistS
History
Intellectual and cultural history, medicine, political thought, drama
Cordula van Wyhe, MA, PhD (Courtauld)
History of Art
Baroque art in the Netherlands and France, patronage and court culture
Tatyana Zhukova, MSt (Oxford), PhD (Nottingham)
History
Diplomatic history, court culture and Russian and British history of the early modern period
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
William White, M.Phil (Cantab); D.Phil. (Oxon)
History
Political, religious, and intellectual history of early modern Britain, with a particular focus on the revolutionary decades of the mid-seventeenth century
Graduate Teaching Assistants
Jimena Ruiz Marron, MA (York)
Soundscapes in seventeenth-century women’s writings
Emeritus Professors
Graham Parry, MA (Cantab), PhD (Columbia)
English
Relationship between literature and the visual arts, Milton
John Roe, BA (Cantab), MA, PhD (Harvard)
English
English and Italian literature: Petrarch, Machiavelli, Shakespeare
James Sharpe, BA, DPhil (Oxon)
History
Social and cultural history, witchcraft and crime
Bill Sheils, BA (York), PhD (London)
History
English Reformation, nonconformity and recusancy, agrarian and urban space