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Post-Doc, English & Drama
University Tutor
Thesis Title: Daughters of Zion and Mothers in Israel: The Writings of Separatist and Particular Baptist Women, 1632-1675
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Prof Elaine Hobby
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About
A year ago, I completed my AHRC-funded PhD which was on mid-seventeenth-century separatist and Baptist women’s writings (c.1632-75). The thesis concentrated on women’s position in the gathered churches, and how they responded textually to the changing religious tides of the mid-seventeenth century. By considering conversion narratives, devotional writings, vindications, and church records (both printed and manuscript), it places more familiar seventeenth-century women religious writers like Anna Trapnel, Anne Wentworth, and Agnes Beaumont alongside their lesser-known contemporaries: Sara Jones, Jane Turner, and Deborah Huish.
I have been teaching in Loughborough University's Department of English and Drama for nearly four years. I am currently teaching on 'Introduction to Poetry' and 'British Drama 1576-1737' (both core undergraduate modules), and on the Tutorial Course for part-time students. This semester I have also been teaching library and referencing skills to first-year students.
My next conference paper will be
'Gender and Genre in Baptist Women’s Writings c. 1650-80', University of Reading, Early Modern Studies Conference, 12-14 July 2012
My last conference paper was
‘“The sutablenesse of the subject in these sheets”: Women’s conversion narratives, the Bible, and the strengthening of non-conformists’, The Bible in the Seventeenth Century, University of York (7-9 July 2011)
http://www.york.ac.uk/crems/conversion/news/biblepanel/
Publications
‘“A Good Example to Women”: The Biographer’s Presence in mid-Seventeenth-Century Women’s Conversion Narratives’, *The Glass*, 21 (2009), 11-19 (published conference paper)
‘Anne Venn’s *A Wise Virgins Lamp Burning* (1658) in the Household of Anne Dunch, Sister-in-law to Richard Cromwell’, *Notes & Queries*, 57 (2010), 501-3
http://nq.oxfordjournals.org/content/57/4/501.full
'"As shee preachers hold forth Christ": Writing and Speaking in Sara Jones’s Challenge to Episcopacy, *The Relation of a Gentlewoman* (1642)', *Prose Studies*, 33:1 (2011), 1-18
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01440357.2011.568778
‘“Like to an anatomy before us”: Deborah Huish’s spiritual experiences and the attempt to establish the Fifth Monarchy’, *The Seventeenth Century*, 26:1 (2011), 44-68
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/manup/tsc/2011/00000026/00000001
Entries in *A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen 1500-1650: Exemplary Lives and Memorable Acts* forthcoming with Ashgate
'"Gather up the Fragments, that nothing be lost": "Memorable" Women's Conversion Narratives', *Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal*, 6 (2011), 209-16
http://humanities.miami.edu/publications/emwj/volume6
Entries on Lucy Hutchinson and others in *The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of British Literature: 1660-1789* forthcoming (2013)
Dissemination of Research
Large showcase entitled 'Deborah Huish and the Loughwood Baptist Church Records' displayed at the Devon Record Office/Devon Heritage Service: Winter/Spring 2011-12. The display was accompanied by the original seventeenth-century record book.
Book Reviews
*The Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women, 1558-1680*, ed. by Joanna Harris and Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, for *The Recorder: The Official Newsletter of the International John Bunyan Society* (2011), pp. 10-11
*A Company of Women Preachers: Baptist Prophetesses in Seventeenth-Century England, a Reader*, ed. by Curtis W. Freeman, forthcoming in *The Seventeenth Century*, 27:1 (2012)
