CREMS Academic staff

• John Donne and his contemporaries
• Seventeenth-century religious poetry and prose
• John Milton and his contemporaries
• Early modern print and manuscript culture

• Franco-British literary relations
• Translation, imitation, and multilingual practices
• Literary reception and cultural mobility
• Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century religious poetry

Katie Bank is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Birmingham researching musical-visual culture in early modern England. Her research reflects an interdisciplinary attention to the role of music and music making within the intellectual history of early modern England, particularly music's intersection with natural philosophy, the passions, and ...

My research interests are in Renaissance English and comparative literature, with focuses on classical reception, translation, epic, and the history of classical scholarship.

• Cultural history of C17 and C18 Europe
• Anglo-German cultural relations
• History of translation
• Literary translation
• Gender and translation
• Women intellectuals pre-1900, particularly women translators

I teach across the historical spectrum – from the ancient period to the modern – though my main interests lie in the sixteenth century. I am particularly interested in ancient and medieval literary reception in the post-Reformation period, early modern print culture, women’s writing (particularly Aemilia Lanyer and Hester Pulter), literary communities, scribal practices, and the ...

Political and cultural history of late sixteenth and early seventeenth century England

Power, politics, and ideas in Revolutionary America; commerce and finance in the Atlantic world.

Shakespeare; the history of Shakespeare in performance and in culture generally; the Royal Shakespeare Company; British theatre history, 1570 to the present; Elizabeth I and her reputation; amateur theatre; cultural relations between the US and the UK.

Shakespeare and nineteenth-century culture and politics, particularly in Birmingham; and on how Shakespeare may be read in conjunction with great European (especially German) traditions.

Early-modern Catholic reform, early-modern politics, man and environment in early-modern Europe

Visual and material culture of early modern Britain, post-Reformation religious and cultural practices.

Please note: as of September 2019 I am on a five-year leave of absence from the University to work full time for the University and College Union (UCU). During this period I will not be teaching or supervising students, or commencing any new research projects. Please continue to contact me at my University email address, but be advised that I will be checking it less regularly than ...

• The social and cultural history of eighteenth-century Britain 
• The body, gender and sexuality
• Letters and letter-writing

I teach across the late medieval, early modern, and Restoration periods. My research focuses on the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, early modern subjectivity, and the history of emotions.

The history of Shakespeare's theatres; Renaissance anatomy, dissection and medicine; witchcraft and superstition in early modern England; the literature and material culture of wonder, curiosity and 'monstrosity'; death, burial and commemoration in Renaissance England; early robotics, automata and artificial life; early modern politics and cultures of spying; women's history and indomitable ...

Early modern German history, gender and reformation; the history of modern missions, children and childhood, history of crime.

• Manuscripts and early printed books, especially Books of Hours
• Art at the French and Burgundian Courts c. 1400-1600
• Women as patrons and consumers of late medieval early modern art
• Text-image relations
• The querelle des femmes in art and literature

• Early modern literature
• Romantic literature
• Reception
• Poetry
• Drama
• Manuscript

All aspects of Ottoman history; political and intellectual history of Islamic lands after the arrival of the Mongols (thirteenth-seventeenth centuries).

My primary research interests are in the history of politics, religion, and the book in early modern Britain and Europe, especially but not exclusively c1598-1660.

• Eighteenth-century Shakespeare
• Eighteenth-century fiction
• Quotation
• Reception
• The uses of poetry
• Cultural value

Eighteenth-century Britain and empire, material cultures, production, consumption, skill, the senses and the emotions.

Shakespearean and early modern topics, especially drama; playhouse culture; music and literature.

Publishers of Shakespeare’s first folio, Carolean stage warfare, Jonson in parts, eighteenth century Shakespeare editors, Coronation literature, warrior women, English translations of Moliere, and commonplace and related 16-18th century topics.

Shakespeare and the emotions, Shakespeare and the body and/or soul, Shakespeare and twenty-first-century performance, and Shakespeare and digital culture.

The English reformation, history and theology of late-medieval and early modern Europe.

• Aphra Behn
• Restoration literature
• Early modern women's writing
• Book history
• Samuel Daniel