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Literature (UHP, 2005). He is currently working on The Edinburgh Companion to Shakespeare and the
Arts (EUP, 2010, with Mark Burnett and Ramona Wray), a collection of essays called Early Modern
Drama and the Politics of Biblical Reading and a book on early modern drama and apocalypse.
STURGEON, Dr Sinéad *Irish writing in English
Sinéad teaches nineteenth-­‐century Irish writing in English, and has particular research interests in
popular culture and the literary representation of law. She has published on the cultural and literary
life of illegal Irish whiskey, and is a contributor to the Dictionary of Irish Biography (Cambridge
University Press). She is currently working on a monograph exploring the significance of legal
discourse and tropes in early nineteenth-­‐century Irish writing.
SUMPTER, Dr Caroline *Nineteenth-­‐century literature
Caroline’s research interests include the nineteenth-­‐century press, Victorian literature and science,
and political appropriations of fantasy (including the fairy tale and science fiction). She is the author
of The Victorian Press and the Fairy Tale (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) and has published on late
Victorian politics and culture in journals including Victorian Studies, Literature and History,
Nineteenth-­‐Century Contexts and Cultural and Social History. She is currently working on a book
which explores links between literature and debates over moral evolution in the late nineteenth
century.
THOMPSON, Professor John *Later Medieval literature
John teaches Medieval literature, especially Chaucer and post-­‐Chaucerian romance and lyric poetry,
and researches the production and circulation of ME manuscripts and early prints, most recently
through the AHRB-­‐funded ‘Traditions of the Book’ project. He has authored two monographs: Robert
Thornton & the London Thornton Manuscript, and The Middle English Cursor Mundi: poem, text and
context, and many articles on the sociology of medieval literature and medieval textual cultures; He
has co-­‐edited two books: The Court and Cultural Diversity (with Evelyn Mullally) and Imagining the
Book (with Stephen Kelly). With Stephen Kelly and Ryan Perry he has published Making Histories: the
Middle English Prose Brut and the Bibliographical Imagination (2007). A monograph on Anglophone
textual cultures in Ireland is also under way.
URBAN, Dr Malte *Medieval literature
Malte’s research interests focus on late-­‐medieval English literature, especially Geoffrey Chaucer and
John Gower. He is particularly interested in the ways in which medieval writers appropriate older
texts, manipulating their cultural past for poetical and political purposes in their immediate present.
Malte’s work also queries the current position of post-­‐medieval, twenty-­‐first-­‐century readers of
medieval texts and the usability and validity of poststructuralist theories for our understanding of the
medieval past in the present.
WRAY, Dr Ramona *Renaissance literature
Ramona teaches and researches on Renaissance literature in English, specializing in Shakespeare and
women’s writing of the period. She is the editor of the Arden Early Modern Drama edition of
Elizabeth Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam (2012) and the author of Women Writers in the Seventeenth
Century (Northcote House, 2004). She is also the co-­‐editor of The Edinburgh Companion to
Shakespeare and the Arts (Edinburgh University Press, 2011), Screening Shakespeare in the Twenty-­‐
First Century (Edinburgh University Press, 2006), Reconceiving the Renaissance: A Critical Reader
(Oxford University Press, 2004), Shakespeare, Film, Fin de Siècle (Macmillan, 2000) and Shakespeare
and Ireland: History, Politics, Culture (Macmillan, 1997). Her articles on Shakespeare appropriation,
Shakespeare on film and early modern women’s writing have appeared in Shakespeare Bulletin,
Shakespeare Quarterly, Women’s Writing and elsewhere.
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