Fellowships

Visiting Fellowships

The London Renaissance Seminar offers non-stipendiary fellowships to established academics coming to London for research. Fellows have an affiliation via the LRS fellowship and, under certain circumstances, also at Birkbeck. They do not usually have office-space or, regrettably, any travel expenses. However, we welcome fellows and we find that fellowships work in different ways. We are happy to discuss arrangements with potential fellows. Fellows may wish to note that the LRS events programme tends to run October to June, but we welcome fellows at all times of the year. All fellowships are subject to any UK visa requirements. Please contact Sue Wiseman for more information.

Early Career Fellowships

London Renaissance Seminar offers honorary fellowships for Early Career Researchers from the UK and International Early Career Researchers. These fellowships are designed for early career scholars, usually, though not always, from outside the UK, who are spending a period of time researching in London. The fellowships involve a connection with London Renaissance Seminar and Birkbeck, and some may involve access to the Birkbeck Library and other facilities. In some circumstances, Early Career Fellows may be involved with events held by the seminar. Applicants need to be aware that the seminar’s events are generally held between October and late May, so we welcome applicants who will be researching in London during the summer while noting this is a quieter period in terms of conferences and seminars. There is no stipend attached to these fellowships. International applicants will be subject to any visa requirements.

How to apply for an Early Career Fellowship

• Applications are welcome from early career scholars in the following categories: (a) those who are in the first three years of employment (b) postdoctoral researchers (c) postgraduates working at or preparing for doctoral study (i.e. post-BA, MA). Applicants will be expected to be working in one or more of the Humanities disciplines. To apply please email the following to Sue Wiseman:
  • a letter of application indicating your research area, when and how long you will be in London and any academic affiliation
  • a curriculum vitae.

Current Fellows

Rebecca Tomlin - Early career Fellow Autumn/Spring 2018-19

• Rebecca Tomlin completed her PhD in 2016 and is an Associate Scholar of the project Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern England based at CRASSH and the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge. She is currently working on a monograph provisionally entitled Neighbourhood, Charity, and Identity in Late- Sixteenth Century Drama, which examines ideas of neighbourhood in early modern London. Interests include early modern London, charity, begging, cultural geography, and theatre. She also has a long-standing interest in early double-entry book-keeping books as pedagogical texts which attempted to present an essentially practical applied technique as an art. When she is not researching and writing, she works at the Society of Antiquaries of London.

Past Fellows

Zenón Luis Martínez - early Career Fellow Summer 2018

• Zenón Luis Martínez was an LRS Early Career Fellow in July and August 2018. He is a scholar of English Renaissance Literature at the University of Huelva (Spain).

Sam Fullerton - early Career Fellow Spring/Summer 2018

• Sam Fullerton was an LRS Early Career Fellow for spring and summer 2018. He is a PhD candidate in early modern British history at the University of California, Riverside. His dissertation, entitled Sex and the English Revolution, explores the impact of newly printed discourses of sex and the body on the public life and political culture of the English Civil Wars and Interregnum.

Professor Ros Smith - Visiting Fellow Spring/Summer 2016

• Professor Ros Smith (Associate Professor of English at the University of Newcastle, Australia) specialises in early modern women's writing, with an interest in gender and genre, politics and history and is a coordinator of the Early Modern Women Research Network. Her publications include Sonnets and the English Woman Writer, 1560-1621: The Politics of Absence, and a collection on Material Cultures of Early Modern Women's Writing, both with Palgrave Macmillan, as well as articles and chapters on Renaissance poetry. She also co-directs the Centre of 21st Century Humanities at the University of Newcastle, with interests in cross-disciplinary research, the digital humanities and external engagement. She is currently working on two monographs - one on early modern women's marginalia and another on the poetry of Mary Queen of Scots, as well as a book chapter on early modern women and religion. She also has research interests in early modern women, true crime and complaint.

Professor Stephen Guy-Bray - Visiting Fellow Autumn 2015

• Professor Stephen Guy-Bray was an LRS Visiting Fellow for autumn 2015, when he discussed poetry, writing and the Renaissance. Stephen Guy-Bray is Professor of English at the University of British Columbia. He specialises in Renaissance poetry. He is the author of three monographs (most recently Against Reproduction: Where Renaissance Texts Come From) and the co-editor of two essay collections (most recently The Age of Thomas Nashe: Texts, Bodies and Trespasses of Authorship in Early Modern England) as well as numerous articles and chapters, chiefly on Renaissance literature. He is currently working on a monograph on poetic paraphrase, an edition of George Peele's The Old Wives Tale, and essays on mid-17th century English poetry and Renaissance woman and textual production.