I am a lecturer in early modern literature at King’s College London and I currently convene the Shakespeare Studies MA in collaboration with Shakespeare’s Globe. I have taught and supervised undergraduate and postgraduate students on topics including Shakespeare, women’s writing and needlework, premodern race and gender, time, ecocriticism, global performance and adaptations of Shakespeare, seventeenth-century comedy, book history, film studies, and literary theory.
My research specialisms include sixteenth and seventeenth-century literature, prose pamphlets, material culture, metals and metallurgy, military literature, and historical metaphors. I was awarded my PhD in 2022 and my thesis examined metallurgical metaphors for language in early modern English literature, tracing how writers understood their words to be akin to transformative, malleable metals and their craft akin to laborious blacksmithing, coining, and soldiering. In the summer of 2023, I held two competitive fellowships, a short-term fellowship at the Huntington Library, California, and a David Walker Memorial Fellowship in Early Modern History at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. I am currently developing my thesis into a monograph on the early modern metallic imagination.
In 2021, I founded the Early Modern Metals Research Network, which I co-run with Bethany Gaunt, Stella Wisgrill, and Celine Camps. This network brings together a cohort of interdisciplinary and international scholars interested in metals in the pre-modern world.
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Emily Rowe 