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
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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

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Professor Jeanice Brooks

Professor of Music

Research interests

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

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Emeritus Professor John McGavin

Research interests

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

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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

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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

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Professor Mark Stoyle

Professor of History

Research interests

  • The English Civil War
  • Tudor Rebellions
  • Witchcraft
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Dr Mike Bintley PhD, SFHEA, FRHistS

Assoc Professor in Medieval English Lit

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Nicholas Karn

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Institutions of law and the culture of the law in England in the central middle ages, especially from about 1000 to 1250. 
  • Institutions of the church and the roles and influence of churchmen, 1100-1400

Accepting applications from PhD students

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