Dr Sharon van Dijk

Dr Sharon van Dijk

Department of Modern Languages
Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Contact details

Email
s.vandijk.1@bham.ac.uk
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Address
Room 107, Ashley Building
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

My research interests are in the area of early modern literature (1500-1800), focusing in particular on the relationship between neo-Latin and vernacular literature. My interests include the role of humanism in the reformation, humanist networks and early modern Latin and English poetry, especially poetry created in educational contexts and pastoral verse. I am currently working on the Leverhulme-funded project ‘The Correspondence of Huldrych Zwingli and Johannes Oecolampadius: Translation & Analysis’, led by Professor Nigel Harris. My background is in Classics and English and my PhD thesis (UCL, 2021) is the first complete study of the nine Latin eclogues of Giles Fletcher the Elder (c.1546-1611).

Qualifications

  • PhD in Early Modern Latin, University College London, 2021.
  • MSt in Greek and/or Latin Languages and Literature, University of Oxford, 2014.
  • BA in Liberal Arts and Sciences (major in Classics, English Literature and Linguistics), University College Roosevelt (English-speaking Honours College of Utrecht University), 2013.

Teaching

I am teaching seminars for the English Department on the Renaissance Poetry module from January 2022.

Research

The role of humanism in the reformation, humanist networks and early modern neo-Latin and English poetry, especially school and university verse, and pastoral verse.

 Current projects

The Leverhulme-funded project ‘The Correspondence of Huldrych Zwingli and Johannes Oecolampadius: Translation and Analysis’, led by Professor Nigel Harris.

Other activities

  • Public Engagement Representative of the Society for Neo-Latin Studies (SNLS).
  • November 2018 – Current.

Podcasts

I edit episodes of The Neo-Latin Podcast for the Society for Neo-Latin Studies; I have presented the first episode, which takes a closer look at three epigrams by the Welsh poet John Owen (c.1563 - c.1622).

Publications

Recent publications

Chapter

Van Dijk, S 2022, A Distinct Mode of Pastoral in Elizabethan Cambridge: Giles Fletcher the Elder (c. 1546-1611), Ecloga Daphnis. in G Manuwald & LR Nicholas (eds), An Anthology of Neo-Latin Literature in British Universities. 1st edn, Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series: Early Modern Texts and Anthologies, Bloomsbury Academic, London, pp. 119-136. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350160293.ch-004

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