Dr Marcus Nevitt
Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Literature
MA (Oxford); PhD (Sheffield)
Contact | ![]() Room 1.19, Jessop West Internal extension: 28487 email : m.nevitt@sheffield.ac.uk |
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Overview |
I was appointed as a lecturer in Renaissance Literature here at Sheffield in 2002. This was a welcome return home having spent four years at Sheffield some time previously as both PhD student and Teaching Fellow. In the intervening three years I taught in the English Literature departments of the University of Hertfordshire and the University of Leeds. My first book, Women and the Pamphlet Culture of Revolutionary England was a study of the relationships between cheap print and female agency in the English Civil wars. Since then, I´ve begun researching the civil-war career of the poet-dramatist and Shakespeare adapter, Sir William Davenant for a study entitled William Davenant and the Making of Restoration Culture. My next book, Poetry and the Art of English Newswriting will be a study of birth of the poet-journalist in the mid seventeenth century. I welcome applications from potential research students in all areas of my research and teaching. My next book, Poetry and the Art of English Newswriting will be a study of birth of the poet-journalist in the mid seventeenth century. I welcome applications from potential research students in all areas of my research and teaching. |
Research |
I specialise in seventeenth-century literature. I have written principally on cheap print and my monograph, Women and the Pamphlet Culture of Revolutionary England was published by Ashgate in 2006. I have written articles on Ben Jonson and news writing in the seventeenth century, as well as numerous pieces on interregnum royalism and its connection to Restoration culture. I am currently working on two book-length projects: Poetry and the Art of English Newswriting, 1640—1660 and William Davenant and the Making of Restoration Culture. |
Teaching |
I teach on the following modules:
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Supervision |
I welcome applications from potential research students in all of my research areas. |
Research Grants |
AHRC Speculative Research Grant £200,000 for ‘Participating in Search Design: A Study of George Thomason’s Newsbooks’: http://psdnewsbooks.wordpress.com/ HEIF 4 Grant, £10,000 (for pilot project with Derbyshire Record Office: ‘Accessing the Regional Archive: The Wheatcroft MSS’) |
Publications |
Monographs
Articles
Reviews and Shorter Pieces
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