Early Modern Literature and Culture
The Early Modern Literature and Culture (EMLAC) research cluster is based within the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, at the University of Sydney and comprises staff and students involved in Medieval and Renaissance research projects. The group seeks to promote all varieties of enquiry into early modern literature and culture.
Undergraduate, honours, postgraduate and staff research is concentrated and accelerated here with a view to fostering excellent thesis outcomes, high quality research publications, major competitive grant and fellowship successes, and lifelong academic networks.
EMLAC Topics
Some topics presently under investigation by members include:
- Chaucer and the theatre
- Christine de Pizan
- Classical inheritance in the Renaissance
- Deafness and sign language in the early modern period
- Early modern grotesque
- Early modern ruins
- Early modern senses and supernatural characters in Renaissance drama
- Early modern translation theory
- Early modern women’s writing
- French Books in England
- Greensickness in early modern drama
- Malory and the just war
- Margaret Cavendish
- Milton
- Modern productions of medieval theatre
- Post-modernist Shakespeare performances
- Shakespeare and pedagogy
- Shakespeare in performance in Australia
- Shakespeare, politics and rhetoric
- Spenser
- The matter of Britain
- Tudor classroom
- Virgin Mary in English poetry
We want you!
We are particularly interested to hear from you if you are:
- An established academic researcher (from Australia or overseas) in early modern studies who is interested in visiting or contributing to our research meetings;
- A postdoctoral (and/or ‘early career’) researcher in early modern literature seeking to apply for fellowships at the University of Sydney. See also the University of Sydney Research Office webpage;
- An undergraduate student (at any university) interested in pursuing early modern literature research at the University of Sydney at honours and/or postgraduate levels.
Please contact Dr Semler or on 9351 6852 to find out how EMLAC can help you and how you can be part of this exciting research cluster.
