Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture (CMRC)
Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture (CMRC)

Our people

Learn about our academic experts, from their research interests to their contact details.

Emeritus Professor George Bernard

Research interests

  • History of England in the sixteenth century
  • Henry VIII
Connect with George

Email: gwb@soton.ac.uk

Dr Jakub Boguszak

Lecturer B

Research interests

  • casting practices in Shakespearean productions
  • actors' parts and documents of performance in the early modern period
  • the works of Ben Jonson, printed and performed

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Jakub

Email: J.Boguszak@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 7407

Professor Jeanice Brooks

Professor of Music

Research interests

  • Renaissance music
  • Music in interwar France
  • Music and gender

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Jeanice

Email: L.J.Brooks@soton.ac.uk

Emeritus Professor John McGavin

Research interests

  • Records of Early Drama, Ceremonial, and Secular Music
  • Scottish Literature, History, and Culture pre-1645
Connect with John

Email: J.J.Mcgavin@soton.ac.uk

Dr Lena Wahlgren-Smith

Lecturer

Research interests

  • Mourning and Memorial Culture
  • Bilingualism and Language Choice in pre-Modern Europe
  • Latin Letters and Letter Collections

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Lena

Email: L.K.M.Wahlgren-Smith@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 7539

Professor Maria Hayward

Head of Department

Research interests

  • Early modern textiles and clothing especially in a court context.
  • Early modern court culture, including the Tudors and the later Stuarts.
  • Early modern Scotland, in particular looking at the engagement of the male elite with material culture. 

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Maria

Email: M.Hayward@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 7497

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Professor Marianne O'Doherty

Professor

Research interests

  • Medieval travel and pilgrimage literature
  • Medieval maps, geographical writing, place and space, literary geographies
  • Spatial humanities (including digital)

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Marianne

Email: M.ODoherty@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 4534

Professor Mark Everist

Professor of Music

Research interests

  • Music and culture in Western Europe in the long thirteenth century.
  • Theatre and music in France in the long nineteenth century.
  • Music and diplomacy
Connect with Mark

Email: M.Everist@southampton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 7909 521043

Professor Mark Stoyle

Professor of History

Research interests

  • The English Civil War
  • Tudor Rebellions
  • Witchcraft
Connect with Mark

Email: mjs@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 4860

Dr Mike Bintley PhD, SFHEA, FRHistS

Assoc Professor in Medieval English Lit

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Mike

Email: m.bintley@soton.ac.uk

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