Patrick Hart read Philosophy and English Literature at Manchester before going on to work on twentieth-century poetry as a postgraduate at the University of London, first at Queen Mary College and then at King's College. After a period abroad he completed a master's degree at the Scottish Institute for Northern Renaissance Studies. Patrick is currently writing up a doctorate on Petrarch and the Renaissance sonnet sequence at the University of Strathclyde, where he teaches Romanticism and Modernism. His co-translation (with Mariangela Palladino) of Elsa Morante's La canzone degli F.P. e degli I.M. in tre parti appeared with Transference in 2008; he has also published on late Middle Scots and English Renaissance literature.
Sebastiaan Verweij read English Literature in Amsterdam, and obtained a PhD from the University of Glasgow. From 2008 to 2009 he was a Research Associate for Scriptorium: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Online at the University of Cambridge. He is currently (2010-2015) the RA for the Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne. His research interests are in: late-medieval and early-modern Scottish and English literature, culture, and book history; manuscript production and circulation, print history, book collecting, early libraries; early-modern lyric poetry, and cross-border relations between England and Scotland. Sebastiaan has published on Renaissance Scottish literature, and is currently at work on his first monograph, Scottish Scribal Culture 1560-1707.
Alan Bryson is a Cultural and Political Historian (BA (Hons) in Modern History (Strathclyde University); PhD in Modern History (St Andrews University)). His doctoral thesis was on mid-Tudor lordship (crown and noble local and military power) and politics. His current research interests are: English lordship, 1509-70; mid-Tudor Literature; Ireland, 1535-56; Bess of Hardwick (1527?-1608); English verse miscellanies in manuscript, 1500-1640; and Protector Somerset (d. 1552). He was a Research Editor, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2001-3); Lecturer, University of Wales, Bangor (2003-4); and Research Associate, ‘Origins of Early Modern Literature’, Sheffield University (2005-8). One of the main ‘Origins’ Project outcomes is an online XML database. Currently, Alan is Research Associate, ‘Letters of Bess of Hardwick’ (2008-11). He has completed seven articles for Oxford DNB; one on Art History; one on mid-Tudor crown-county relations; and two on mid-Tudor Ireland; and an essay on Marian history-writing and anti-sedition tracts. His monograph Political Culture, Military Power and Lordship in Tudor England (London: Pickering & Chatto) is forthcoming in 2011.
Annie Doyle developed her fascination with Renaissance literature at the University of Stirling as both an undergraduate and postgraduate. She currently works there as a Teaching Fellow within the Department of English Studies. Her main area of research continues to concentrate on early-modern theatre and the impact of that drama on contemporary society, with a specific focus on the politics of comedy.
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