NEH Fellows
Thomas L. Berger, Piskor Professor of English, St. Lawrence University
“Paratextual Materials in Early Modern Printed Drama to the Restoration”
Heather James, Associate Professor of English, University of Southern California
“Taking Liberties: Ovid in Renaissance Poetry and Political Thought”
Malcolm Smuts, Professor of History, University of Massachusetts, Boston
“The Problem of Religious War in English Political Culture, ca. 1590-1642”
Mellon Fellows
Viorel Panaite, Professor of History and Senior Researcher, University of Bucharest
“Western Merchants in the Ottoman Mediterranean:
Islamic View vs. European View (16th – 17th c.)”
Adam Smyth, Lecturer in English, University of Reading
“Writing Identities: English Diaries, 1550-1700”
Short-term Fellows
Laura Agoston, Associate Professor of Art and Art History, Trinity University
“Origins of the Michelangelo Culture Industry”
Ian Archer, Fellow & Tutor in Modern History, Keble College Oxford
“London, 1550-1720”
Paul Cannan, Assistant Professor of English, University of Minnesota, Duluth
“The Making of Shakespeare the Poet: The Publication and Reception
of Shakespeare’s Poetry, 1640-1866”
Sarbani Chaudhury, Professor of English, University of Kalyani
“’Commonweal Gone Wrong!’: Religious and Secular Counsel in Early Tudor Period”
Kevin Curran, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, McGill University
“Samuel Daniel: Complete Dramatic Works”
Ross Duffin, Professor of Music, Case Western Reserve University
“Music for the Elizabethan Stage Jig”
G. Carter Hailey, Assistant Professor of English, College of William and Mary
“On Paper: The Description and Analysis of Watermarks in the Hand-Press Period”
Donald Hedrick, Professor of English, Kansas State University
“’Extreme Pleasures’: Shakespeare and the Origins of Entertainment Value”
Onnaca Heron, Lectrice in English, Université de Michel de Montaigne
“Aemilia Lanyer’s Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum: Publication, Cultural Contexts, and the Circumvention of Censorship”
Bruce Janacek, Assistant Professor of History, north Central College
“Alchemy and Elias Ashmole”
Christa Jansohn, Chair for British Culture, University of Bamberg
“Shakespeare Apocrypha: An Introduction”
Nora Johnson, Associate Professor of English, Swarthmore College
“Laughing at Shakespeare: Vaudeville, Burlesque, and America’s Shakespeareans”
George Keiser, Professor of English, Kansas State University
“Folger MS V.a.438 (Add. 539) and Manuscript Publication of Practical Writings in Elizabethan England”
Gerard Kilroy, Head of English, King Edward’s School, Bath
“The Epigrams of Sir John Harington”
Bernhard Klein, Senior Lecturer in Literature, University of Essex
“Historicizing the Early Modern Ocean”
Jesse Lander, Assistant Professor of English, University of Notre Dame
“Shakespeare and the Supernatural”
Benjamin Lockerd, Professor of English, Grand Valley State University
“Symbolism of the Senses: Discursive and Intuitive Reasoning in Much Ado and Lear”
Joseph Loewenstein, Professor of English, Washington University
“Collected Works of Edmund Spenser” and “Accessorizing the Renaissance”
Fiona McNeill, Assistant Professor of Literature & Drama, SUNY, Purchase
“Shakespeare’s New World Words”
Michael Neill, Professor of English, University of Auckland
An edition of Massinger’s The Renegado”
Scott Newstok, Assistant Professor of English, Gustavus Adolphus College
“How to Do Things with Epitaphs: The English Renaissance Epitaph in its Extra-Funerary Contexts”
Patricia Phillippy, Professor of English, Texas A&M
“Elizabeth Russell: Letters and Works”
Helen Pierce, University of York
“Unseemly Pictures”
Maria Prendergast, Visiting Assistant Professor of English, College of Wooster
“’Speak and Be Hang’d’”: The Anti-Poetics of Early Modern Theater and Print”
Jane Rickard, Teaching Fellow, University of Sheffield
“James VI and I: Authorship and Authority”
Ben Robertson, Assistant Professor of English, Troy University
“The Pocketbook Diaries of Elizabeth Inchbald”
Lauren Shohet, Associate Professor of English, Villanova University
“Masque and the News”
Emma Smith, Fellow and Tutor in English Literature, Hertford College Oxford
“Authorship and Anonymity on the Early Modern Stage”
Diana Solomon, University of California, Santa Barbara
“Genre, Sex, and Paratext in the Theater of the Long Restoration”
Tiffany Stern, Reader in English, Oxford Brooks University
“The Fragmented Playtext in Shakespearean England”
Ceri Sullivan, Senior Lecturer, University of Wales, Bangor
“The Art of Listening in the Seventeenth Century”
James Tierney, Professor of English (Emeritus), University of Missouri, St. Louis
“British Periodicals, 1660-1800: An Electronic Index”
David Trim, Lecturer in History, Newbold College
“Mobilising a Puritan Crusade: The Role of ‘the Godly’ in England
in Sustaining a Calvinist Militancy in Europe, 1570-1640”
Stefano Villani, Lecturer in History, University of Padua
“Links between Interregnum England and Counter-Reformation Italy: Propaganda and Culture”
Alison Wiggins, Senior Research Officer, AHRB Centre for Editing Lives & Letters,
Queen Mary College
“Reading Chaucer in the Renaissance”
