Participants
Interested PhD students and staff from all CUSO and CUSO-affiliated universities are invited to attend, and CUSO PhD students can have their travel expenses reimbursed. For more information, see the website of the CUSO doctoral programme in English, .
Geneva Participants
Guillemette Bolens
Guillemette Bolens holds a Ph.D. in Medieval Literature from the 玉美人传媒 of Pennsylvania and a Doctorate in Comparative Literature from the 玉美人传媒. She spent a year at Cornell 玉美人传媒 on a research fellowship. She taught Medieval English Literature as an assistant and 鈥渕a卯tre-assistante鈥� before being appointed full professor at the 玉美人传媒 in 2005. Her research interests are in the history of the body and corporeal logics in classical, medieval and contemporary literatures. Her current research project focuses on kinesics and the analysis of gestures, postures, movements, and facial expressions in visual and verbal arts. This interdisciplinary project links the fields of narratology and rhetoric (in literature), gesture studies (in sociology and anthropology), action understanding (in philosophy and psychology), embodied cognition (in neuroscience), and kinesthetic semiotics (in dance theory). (department website, click here)
Sarah Brazil
Sarah Brazil holds a joint honours B.A in English and Greek and Roman Civilisation, an MA in Medieval English Literature from 玉美人传媒 College Dublin, Ireland (U.C.D.), and a PhD in medieval English literature from the 玉美人传媒, with a dissertation entitled 鈥楥overing and Discovering the Body in Medieval Theology, Literature and Drama鈥�. Sarah鈥檚 research interests include Classical literature, late Medieval and Early Modern literature and intertextuality. (department website, click here)
Corinne Clark
Corinne Clark is a PhD student and graduate teaching assistant in the English Department. She holds a Masters in English (650-1550) from the 玉美人传媒 of Oxford, where she studied at Merton College, and she received her undergraduate degree in English from Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. She possesses a professional background in digital publishing and administrative research support, and she has worked with archives and academics across the UK and North America. (department website, click here)
Mark Darcy
Mark Darcy holds a BA from Maynooth 玉美人传媒 and an MA in English from the 玉美人传媒. He is writing a PhD thesis on Satanic Epistemologies in Early Modern English Texts. He was the recipient of an early-PhD-student scholarship from the Institut d鈥檋istoire de la R茅formation of the 玉美人传媒
Lukas Erne
Lukas Erne is Professor of English Literature at the 玉美人传媒. His research interests include Shakespeare, English Renaissance drama and poetry, editorial theory and practice, book history, and questions of authorship. (department website, click here)
Georgia Fulton
Georgia Fulton holds a BA Hons in English Literature from the 玉美人传媒 of Durham, and an MPhil in Renaissance Literature from Clare College, 玉美人传媒 of Cambridge. She is a graduate teaching assistant in the English Department and is working on a PhD thesis on 'Early Tudor Humanism in Shakespeare鈥檚 Tragicomedies'. (department website, click here)
Elizabeth Kukorelly-Leverington
Elizabeth Kukorelly-Leverington has a Bachelor of Science in International Relations from the London School of Economics and a Licence 猫s Lettres from the 玉美人传媒. She completed a Doctorate 猫s letters at the same institution in 2008, entitled: 鈥淪amuel Richardson鈥檚 Pamela Part II: Authorship, Readership and Moral Authority in the Early Novel.鈥� She was a teaching and research assistant in the Geneva English Department from 2002 to 2008, and a ma卯tre assistante from 2008 to 2013, before becoming a lecturer (charg茅e d鈥檈nseignement). Her research interests include the early English novel, discourse analysis (Foucault and Bakhtin), non-literary texts and their interactions with 鈥渓iterary鈥� texts, early eighteenth-century cultural studies (including gender, legal and conduct concerns), and interdisciplinary approaches to literary studies. (department website, click here)
Charlotte Potter
Charlotte Potter is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate and Lecturer in the Geneva English Department. She completed herAHRC-funded PhD in English Literature at the 玉美人传媒 of Sussex in 2022, with a thesis entitled 鈥楿nfixed Virginity: Metaphor and Defloration in Early Modern Drama鈥�. She also holds an MPhil in Renaissance Literature from Newnham College, Cambridge (2017), and an MA in English Literature from the 玉美人传媒 of St Andrews (2015). (department website, click here)
Andy Reilly
Andy Reilly is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate and Lecturer in the Geneva English Department. He holds a PhD in English Literature from the 玉美人传媒 of Lausanne, which he completed in 2022 with a thesis entitled 鈥淲illiam Shakespeare鈥檚 Hamlet in Publication and Performance, 1709鈥�1735鈥�. He also holds an MA in English Literature from the 玉美人传媒 of Lausanne (2017), a Masters in Education (Applied Linguistics) from the Open 玉美人传媒 (2015), and a BA in Drama and Theatre Arts from Goldsmiths College, 玉美人传媒 of London (2003). (department website, click here)
Devani Singh
Devani Singh obtained her Ph.D. in English from the 玉美人传媒 of Cambridge. She also holds an M.Phil. in English Studies (650-1550) from the 玉美人传媒 of Oxford and a B.A. in English from the 玉美人传媒 of Toronto. Devani's research interests span the period 1400-1700, and include the history of reading in the vernacular, the history of the material text, the book trade, and the early modern afterlife of medieval books. (department website, click here)
Emily Smith
Emily Smith has an MSt in English Literature (1550-1700) from Oxford 玉美人传媒 and a BA (Hons) in English Literature from the 玉美人传媒 of Durham. For her PhD thesis, she is currently researching ambiguous signification in early modern drama, under the supervision of Prof. Lukas Erne. Her research interests include dramatic reception and adaptation, the intersection of digital humanities methodologies and literary close reading, and interdisciplinary approaches. She is also very passionate about public engagement and outreach activities, particularly the production of costumes, events, and performances, and serves as an alumni adviser for the social mobility charity The Sutton Trust. (department website, click here)
Nadine Weiss
Nadine Weiss holds an MA from Yale 玉美人传媒 and a PhD from the 玉美人传媒 of Cambridge, specializing in seventeenth-century devotional lyric poetry. (department website, click here)
Ex-Geneva-participants
Aleida Auld
Aleida Auld holds a BA, an MA and a PhD in English from the 玉美人传媒. She wrote a doctoral thesis on 鈥楻econfiguring Early Modern English Poetry in the Editorial Tradition: Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert, and Milton鈥�, and was a graduate teaching assistant in the English Department, specializing in early modern English literature.
Tamsin Badcoe
Tamsin Badcoe gained a BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature and an MA in Renaissance and Romantic Literature from the 玉美人传媒 of Liverpool. She received her PhD from the 玉美人传媒 of York where she also taught in the English department from 2007 to 2010. She was in Geneva as a postdoc in 2010-11. She then taught as a Postdoctoral Lecturing Fellow at the 玉美人传媒 of East Anglia before being appointed to a full-time Lectureship at the 玉美人传媒 of Bristol.
Ioana Balgradean
Ioana Balgradean was an assitant and PhD student in the Geneva English Department. Her PhD thesis, entitled 鈥楾he Poet鈥檚 Grasp at Emotion: Medieval Configurations of Sloth鈥�, was completed in 2011 ().
Julianna Bark
Julianna Bark holds a Licence 猫s lettres from the Universit茅 de Gen猫ve, and a MA and PhD in Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York 玉美人传媒. Her PhD thesis explored the Genevan career of the eighteenth-century pastellist Jean-Etienne Liotard. She was a teaching and research assistant at the 玉美人传媒 for two years and now teaches at Webster 玉美人传媒 Geneva (see ).
Antoinina Bevan Zlatar
Antoinina Bevan Zlatar holds a BA in English from the 玉美人传媒 of Oxford, a DES, and a Doctorate in early modern literature and Reformation history from the 玉美人传媒. Since 2004 she has been a lecturer at the 玉美人传媒 of Z眉rich, teaching Sidney, Shakespeare, Spenser and Milton among others. She has also taught at the 玉美人传媒. Her research interests include early modern genre theory, rhetoric, religious culture and the history of reading, with a focus on John Milton. She is Treasurer of the Swiss Association of Medieval and Early Modern English Studies.
Amy Brown
Amy Brown鈥檚 chief research interest is the treatment of gender in literature. She holds a BA and an M. Phil from the 玉美人传媒 of Sydney, and a PhD from the 玉美人传媒, which she completed in 2018. Her doctoral thesis focused on literary representations of opposite-sex friendships in Middle English and Anglo-Norman texts.
Emma Depledge
Emma Depledge holds a BA in English and an MA in English Literary Research from the 玉美人传媒 of Leicester, England. She has also studied at L鈥橴niversit脿 di Torino, Italy. Her PhD thesis, completed in 2012, is entitled 鈥楽hakespeare Alterations of the Exclusion Crisis, 1678-1682: Politics, Rape, and Authorship鈥� (). She is now Professor at the 玉美人传媒 of Neuch芒tel (see ).
Susanna Gebhardt
Susanna Gebhardt received her BA and MA in 2006 in English Literature, and her Masters of Literature in Shakespearean Studies in 2007 from the 玉美人传媒 of St. Andrews, Scotland. Her research interests include early modern literacy, and the visual culture of early seventeenth-century London. She did a PhD at the 玉美人传媒 from 2007 to 2013, with a thesis exploring wall-writing, single-sided printing, paper reuse, and shop-signs
Johanna Harris
Johanna Harris completed her BA at the 玉美人传媒 of Sydney in 2002. She then moved to the 玉美人传媒 of Oxford where she completed her MSt. in English in 2004, and DPhil. in 2009. She was in Geneva as a postdoc in 2009-10, before returning to Oxford, where she held a teaching lectureship in 2010. She is now Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at the 玉美人传媒 of Exeter (for her website, see ).
Florence Hazrat
Florence Hazrat has a PhD from the 玉美人传媒 of St Andrews, and holds a BA and M.Phil. in English Literature from the 玉美人传媒 of Cambridge. She is particularly interested in sound studies, the conjunction of music and poetry, Renaissance rhetoric, and the socio-cultural history of literary form. She was at the 玉美人传媒 from 2016 to 2018, working with Professor Lukas Erne on a translation and an edition of an early modern German version of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. She is now a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the 玉美人传媒 of Sheffield (see ).
Petya Ivanova
Petya Ivanova studied English and History at the Faculty of Letters at the 玉美人传媒, where she was a PhD student and assistant in the English Department, working under the supervision of Professor Guillemette Bolens. Her PhD thesis investigates issues of corporeity and language, articulated around the use of gesture as signifier of expressive presence in a number of literary texts, ranging from the Medieval to the Early Modern and contemporary periods. She completed her PhD in 2014 ().
Emilija Kraguevska
Emilija Kraguevska holds an MA from the South East European 玉美人传媒 in Macedonia where she wrote a thesis about female language and discourse in Shakespeare鈥檚 tragedies. She was in Geneva in 2012-13 as the recipient of a Swiss Government Scholarship.
Keith McDonald
Keith McDonald was a teaching and research assistant in the English Department of the 玉美人传媒 for two years (2008-10) and was researching the connections between Andew Marvell and privacy. He went on to pursue PhD research at the 玉美人传媒 of Leicester.
John McGee
John McGee did a PhD in English at the 玉美人传媒, completed in 2014, with a thesis entitled 鈥楢nti-Petrarchism in Early Shakespeare鈥� (). He has published several articles, including 鈥楽hakespeare鈥檚 Narcissus: Omnipresent Love in Venus and Adonis鈥� in Shakespeare Survey in 2010, and 鈥楢 Set of Wit Well-Played in Romeo and Juliet Act 2, Scene 3?鈥� in Shakespeare (2013).His first degrees were in Indian literature, including an MA at the 玉美人传媒 of Calgary and a BA at the 玉美人传媒 of Toronto. He also holds an MA from the 玉美人传媒 of Dallas.
James Misson
James Misson is a book historian interested in understanding print culture through computational methods. His PhD thesis from the 玉美人传媒 of Oxford presents statistical models of the connections between typography, languages, and culture in the sixteenth century, as well as close readings of typographically unusual books. James holds a BA and an M.St. from the 玉美人传媒 of Oxford, and a Post-Baccalaureate in Post-Classical Latin from the 玉美人传媒 of California, Los Angeles, and has interned at the Beinecke Library and the Yale Center for British Art. He has taught Medieval and Early Modern literature at the 玉美人传媒 of Oxford, and is an Editor of the Material Evidence in Incunabula database. At the 玉美人传媒, he worked on the research project 'To the Reader: The English Preface in Print, c. 1475-1623' (PI, Devani Singh). He now works for the Oxford English Dictionary.
Dana Monah
Dana Monah is a PhD student at the Universities of Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Ia艧i, and Paris III, working on modern productions and adaptations of Shakespeare. She spent the academic year 2010-11 at the 玉美人传媒.
Beatrice Montedoro
Beatrice Montedoro has a BA in English and Art History and an MA in English from the 玉美人传媒. She was the recipient of a studentship to St. John鈥檚 College, 玉美人传媒 of Oxford, in 2012 and, in the same year, presented a paper at the conference of the Swiss Association of Medieval and Early Modern English Studies (SAMEMES) on 鈥榃ords as Sickness: The Dramatization of Bewitchment in Middleton鈥檚 The Witch and Dekker鈥檚 The Witch of Edmonton鈥�. She is now pursuing a DPhil on the early modern commonplacing of English drama at the 玉美人传媒 of Oxford.
Oliver Morgan
Oliver Morgan holds a BA in English from Pembroke College, Cambridge, an MA in Early Modern Literature and Culture from the 玉美人传媒 of Sussex, and a PhD in English from the 玉美人传媒, where he taught as a graduate teaching assistant and as a 'ma卯tre assistant' from 2011 to 2019. He is now a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the 玉美人传媒 of Cambridge.
Ruth Mullett
Ruth Mullett holds an M.St. in English 650-1550 from Oxford 玉美人传媒, an MA in Medieval Studies from Cornell 玉美人传媒, and a Ph.D. (with a dissertation on Putting on the Armor of God: Defensive Reading in England, c. 1215-1550), also from Cornell 玉美人传媒. Broadly speaking, she is interested in how medieval literary history can be seen to move through a conversation with the cultural past. Her research interests include Middle English literature, book history, palaeography and codicology, and digital humanities (particularly manuscript imaging and digital cataloging techniques). She taught at the 玉美人传媒 from 2017 to 2018.
Lucy Perry
Lucy Perry received her PhD in medieval English from King鈥檚 College London and has held positions at the 玉美人传媒 of Lausanne and 玉美人传媒 College Dublin. She has also taught at the 玉美人传媒 of Bern. Her research interests are medieval historiography and romance, and Arthurian literature. She is currently engaged in preparing the third and final volume of the edition of La3补尘辞苍鈥檚 Brut for the Early English Text Society and is working on a monograph on La3补尘辞苍鈥檚 Brut and the English Verse Chronicle up to 1340. She mainly teaches Old and Middle English language and literature.
Azamat Rakhimov holds an MA in English from the 玉美人传媒 and is working on a PhD dissertation on the adaptation of Shakespeare in Russia.
Madeline Ruegg
Madeline Ruegg, who has an MA from the 玉美人传媒 of Neuch芒tel, joined the doctoral workshop as a post-graduate researcher from 2009 to 2011. She pursued a PhD at the Freie Universit盲t Berlin, with a thesis on 鈥楾he Patient Griselda Myth in Early Modern European Drama鈥�.
Kareen Seidler
Kareen Seidler holds a Licence 猫s Lettres from the 玉美人传媒 and an MPhil in English Renaissance Literature from the 玉美人传媒 of Cambridge. Her MPhil thesis was awarded the Martin-Lehnert-Prize of the German Shakespeare Society in 2010. She did a PhD at the 玉美人传媒, completed in 2012, with a thesis entitled 鈥楽hakespeare on the German 奥补苍诲别谤产眉丑苍别 in the Seventeenth Century: Romio und Julieta and Der Bestrafte Brudermord鈥� (). She was a teaching and research assistant at the 玉美人传媒 for two years before working at Freie Universit盲t Berlin. Her research interests include textual studies, the theater in all its facets and, of course, Shakespeare (see ).
Maria Shmygol
Maria Shmygol received her doctorate from the 玉美人传媒 of Liverpool, with a thesis entitled 鈥樷�楢 Sea-Change鈥�: Representations of the Marine in Jacobean Drama and Visual Culture鈥�. She also holds an MA in Renaissance and Eighteenth-Century Literature (2010) and a BA in English Language and Literature (2009) from the 玉美人传媒 of Liverpool. She has previously taught at her alma mater, where she also worked as a research assistant for the Oxford Hakluyt Project, and, more recently, at the 玉美人传媒 of Sussex. Her research interests include early modern drama, textual editing and print culture, as well as material and visual culture more broadly. Her current project is an edition of William Percy鈥檚 underwater play, The Aphrodysial (1602). She was at the 玉美人传媒 from 2016 to 2019, working with Professor Lukas Erne on a translation and an edition of the 1620 German adaptation of Titus Andronicus.
Liz Skuthorpe
Liz Skuthorpe's research interests include the history of emotions, mythology and folkloristics, performance, and speech act theory. She attained a BA from the 玉美人传媒 of Technology, Sydney and an MA from the 玉美人传媒 of Iceland, before teaching and doing research in the Geneva English Department.
Fiona Tolhurst
Fiona Tolhurst held a BA in Psychology and English Literature from Rice 玉美人传媒 (Houston, Texas) and an MA and PhD in English Language and Literature from Princeton 玉美人传媒. A Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities funded her graduate work. Before coming to Switzerland, she served as an assistant professor, associate professor, and full professor of English at Alfred 玉美人传媒 (Alfred, New York) where she taught Anglo-Saxon and Middle English literature as well as medieval women writers and a travel course about Rome. Her research interests included Arthurian literature, medieval mystics, and literary defences of women. While in Switzerland from 2008 to 2013, she taught at the Universities of Basel, Berne and Neuch芒tel and was a lecturer in medieval and early modern English at the 玉美人传媒. She moved on to become Associate Professor of English at Florida Gulf Coast 玉美人传媒. She sadly in 2021.
Sarah Van der Laan
Sarah Van der Laan, who has a BA and a PhD from Yale and two MAs from Queen Mary College, 玉美人传媒 of London, was hired in Geneva as a post-doctoral researcher in the English department before moving to Indiana 玉美人传媒 as an assistant professor of Comparative Literature (for her website, see ).
Juliette Vuille
Juliette Vuille holds a PhD from the 玉美人传媒 of Lausanne, with a doctoral thesis on 鈥楬oly Harlots: Authority, Gender, and the Body in Medieval English Hagiography鈥� (2013). She was charg茅e d鈥檈nseignement suppl茅ante in the Geneva English department in 2013-14, before going on to pursue post-doctoral research on an SNSF scholarship. She is now a Ma卯tre d'enseignement et de recherche at the 玉美人传媒 of Lausanne.
Louise Wilson
Louise Wilson gained her BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature from Oxford 玉美人传媒 and her MA and PhD in English Renaissance Literature from the 玉美人传媒 of York. She was a post-doctoral researcher in the English department of the 玉美人传媒 before moving to the 玉美人传媒 of St Andrews, where she is now the recipient of a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (for her website, see ).