CEMS Seminar with Professor Emerita Gillian Russell “Marlow’s plays & poems are totally vanished”: Charles Lamb’s recuperation of Christopher Marlowe in Specimens of English Dramatic Poets Who Lived About the Time of Shakspeare (1808) CEMS and ANU English are...
CEMS welcomes PhD candidate James Whiting as our newest HDR member. James is commencing his PhD in English in the School of Literature, Languages, and Linguistics at the Australian National University. His research interests include Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, Katherine...
CEMS is delighted to welcome our new co-deputy directors Associate Professor Una McIlvenna and Dr Amelia Dale.Una is Australian Research Council Future Fellow 2023-2027 and Associate Professor in English at ANU. Her research interests lie in the fields of early modern...
Romanticism and Property Canberra, 18-20 November, 2027 Property changed in both idea and practice in the decades around 1800. The French Revolution saw an upheaval of property relations through the confiscation of Church and aristocratic estates. In the same years,...
CEMS publishes a quarterly newsletter showcasing CEMS events, our members' achievements and items of interest to scholars of early modern studies including events and calls for papers. Access the latest CEMS newsletter here. Access the newsletter archive here. If you...
Three CEMS HDR members graduated with their PhDs in February graduation ceremonies. Congratulations Dr Lucy Boon, Dr Barbara Taylor and Dr Julia Rodwell! Read their dissertation abstracts below. Lucy Boon: Practising "Love & Faith" When Queering the Early Modern...
England’s ‘Island Nationhood?’ When: 19 February 2026 Where: National Library of Australia Theatre and Online Registrations: Click here Join Lorna Hutson, Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford, as she considers how early modern legal and...
Cross-Disciplinary Approaches in Early Modern and Medieval Studies: An ANZAMEMS/CEMS ANU Seminar for Postgraduates and Early-Career Researchers Thursday 19th to Friday 20th February, 2026 National Library of Australia, Canberra Professor Lorna Hutson, Merton Professor...
☛ Gorgeous Books and Royal Annotations: What Katherine Parr and Henry VIII Wrote in their Books ☚ CEMS is proud to host Professor Micheline White (Carleton University) for this public lecture at the National Library of Australia. When: 7 August 2025 Where: National...
There has a strong CEMS contigent at RSA this week: Una McIlvenna, Kate Flaherty, Claire Hansen and Rosalind Smith, and HDR students Hannah Upton, Lucy Boon and Barbara Taylor are all presenting new research. CEMS is also sponsoring seven sessions (see below). CEMS...