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Dr Felicity Stout
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Felicity Stout received her PhD in early modern history from the University of Sheffield in 2009. Since then she has taught various courses on early modern history, including a Special Subject on ‘Ghosts, Witches and Portents: the Supernatural in Early Modern Europe, c. 1530-1720’ and ‘The “Disenchantment” of Early Modern Europe, c.1570–1770’. She has also provided research assistance to various projects in the Departments of History and Psychology. In 2010 she held the Society of Renaissance Studies Post-doctoral Fellowship and a short-term Folger Shakespeare Library Fellowship to work on her forthcoming book Exploring Russia in the Elizabethan Commonwealth. In 2011, she joined The Hakluyt Edition Project as co-editor of Volume 4 and worked as the project’s Research Fellow at Nottingham Trent University. In 2012 she held fellowships in the USA at the Huntington Library, San Marino and the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC. Between 2009 and 2012, Felicity also worked part-time in the Urban Forestry industry and ran regular Social Forestry projects. She currently holds the De Velling Willis Fellowship for the Arts and Humanities and is based in the History Department. Research
Research Interests Felicity’s research interests cover early modern travel, trade and trans-national histories, as well as the history of forests, forestry and wood as a sustainable resource. Although trained as a historian, her recent and current research projects have led her into interdisciplinary areas, combining her historical practice with approaches from the disciplines of English literature, geography, psychology and cultural studies. Her primary area of expertise is early modern exploration, travel literature and trans-cultural encounters, with a particular focus on Anglo-Russian relations in the Elizabethan period. She is currently developing her expertise in the study of Social forestry and woodland history. Her work uses a broad range of sources, from sonnet sequences to land surveys to diplomatic reports, in order to examine how Elizabethan and Jacobean commentators engaged in a discourse of ‘commonwealth’ to discuss the duties of governors and subjects in early modern England.
Current Research Felicity is currently an editor on The Hakluyt Edition Project, co-editing Volume 4 for the new, critical edition of Richard Hakluyt’s landmark work The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation (1598–1600). Her second research project: ‘“No wood, no kingdome”: wood, woodlands, and the politics of common-wealth in early modern England’ takes a fresh look at the politically-charged discourse of commonwealth employed in early modern England to discuss land management, wood scarcity and socio-economic interactions with woodland. Focusing on printed treatises and manuscript petitions, the project explores how the language of commonwealth was used to discuss the contested space of ‘waste’ and ‘wood’ land. Further, it considers whether we can find any resonance between the early modern language of commonwealth and our more familiar discourse of sustainability. Selected Publications
Articles - ‘ “The strange and wonderfull Discoverie of Russia”: Richard Hakluyt and Censorship’, in Richard Hakluyt and Travel Writing in Early Modern Europe, eds. Daniel Carey and Claire Jowitt (Ashgate and The Hakluyt Society, 2012). - ‘“The Countrey is too colde, the people beastlie be”: Elizabethan Representations of Russia’, Literature Compass (forthcoming, May2013).
Books - Co-editor (with Anna Agnarsdottir and Michael Brennan) of Volume 4 of Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations (OUP, forthcoming 2016). - Exploring Russia in the Elizabethan Commonwealth: Giles Fletcher, the elder (1546-1611), his life, works and legacy (in preparation).
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