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CEMS HDR candidate Emma Rayner approved for award of PhD
Congratulations to CEMS HDR candidate Emma Rayner, who has been approved for the award of PhD for her thesis "Fashioning Worth, Fashioning Worlds: Early Modern Women and Civil Discourses." Fashioning Worth, Fashioning Worlds: Early Modern Women and Civil Discourses...
CEMS Member Spotlight: Una McIlvenna
Dr Una McIlvenna is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow 2023-2027 and Senior Lecturer in English. Her research interests lie in the fields of early modern cultural and literary history. Una is particularly interested in the early modern and nineteenth-century...
Public Lecture with Professor Nicholas Terpstra, 2 July 2024: Moving Targets: Finding Young People in the Early Modern World
On behalf of the International Consortium of Centres for Early Modern Studies, ANU CEMS is delighted to welcome Professor Nicholas Terpstra for a hybrid public lecture on 2 July. Location: Online and in-person at the National Library of Australia, Canberra Date:...
Recent Publications: May 2024
Congratulations to CEMS members for their recent publications. Dr Claire Hansen has co-authored a paper with Bríd Phillips, “‘Wilt Break My Heart?’ Takotsubo Syndrome and Shakespeare’s Discourse of Heartbreak in Antony and Cleopatra and King Lear” in Shakespeare...
CEMS at RSA Chicago 2024
CEMS sponsored three panels for the 2024 conference of the Renaissance Society of America, held on 21-23 March in Chicago, all of which drew strong crowds. "Early Modern Women and English Marginalia," which ran over two sessions, was organised by Robert Wellington...
CEMS Member Spotlight: Christina Clarke
The CEMS Member Spotlight is a new feature of our newsletter and website which aims to introduce individual members and their research to the CEMS community. To set the Member Spotlights in motion, allow me to introduce myself, Dr Christina Clarke. I’m the new...
Recent Publications: March 2024
Una McIlvenna has published her first article in Spanish (translated by Juan Gomis Coloma): "El sonido de la muerte inminente: las baladas de ajusticiados en Europa (siglos XVI-XIX)," in Boletín de Literatura Oral 6, Special Issue "Los sonidos de la horca: la...
Fellowships and Awards
Three members of the CEMS community have recently received awards for their work. Dr Una McIlvenna’s book Singing the News of Death: Execution Ballads in Europe 1500-1900 (The New Cultural History of Music series, Oxford University Press, 2022) won The...
Event Report on Unfinished Conversations: Still Kissing the Rod #3
‘Unfinished Conversations: Still Kissing the Rod #3’ — hosted at Merton College, Oxford, on 30 January 2024 — was occasioned by the recent publication of two landmark works: The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700, edited by by...