Postdoctoral Fellows
General
PhD, Warwick, 2007. MA, Rutgers, 2003, MA, Warwick 1999 (Dist), BA, Reading 1998 (1st). Butterworth Award for Teaching Excellence 2009.
Research interests
The relationship between pedagogy and performance; pedagogy more broadly;performance and performativity in native literatures; the literatures of the American Southwest; theories of modernity.
Publications
Open-space Learning: a Transdisciplinary Pedagogy (Bloomsbury, 11thNovember 2010) will launch the Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities series. A piece on the uses of performance to teach Chemistry will appear in October 2010 issue of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Journal, Chemistry Education Research and Practice.
Teaching and supervision
Drama, Performance, Identity Post-1955, Shakespeare and Selected Dramatists, Literature in the Modern World. Also, a variety of workshops across the University faculties for departments including Business, Medicine, Chemistry, and the LDC. Supervising work on contemporary drama.
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General
BA (London), MPhil (Cambridge), DPhil (Sussex). She is an Early Career Leverhulme Fellow in the Department of English and Comparative literature.
Research Interests
Femke is currently working on a book on the devotional reading practices of early modern women, and the ways in which these practices inform female religious literary culture. This research follows on from projects on the Geneva Bible and its female readership, and on patterns of citation in early modern texts. Her wider research interests include the history of reading, the history of the book, the rhetoric of affect in early modern literature, and psychoanalysis and literature. She works on texts from across the period, from the early sixteenth, to the late seventeenth, century.
Teaching
Seventeenth Century Literature and Culture (undergraduate module)
Publications
'Using a Collection to Discover Reading Practices: The British Library Geneva Bibles and a History of their Early Modern Readers', Electronic British Library Journal (2006), art. 10, pp. 1-13 http://www.bl.uk/eblj/2006articles/pdf/article10.pdf
'Of the Incomparable Treasure of the holy Scripture': The Geneva Bible in the Early Modern Household', in Literature and Popular Culture in Early Modern England, ed. by Matthew Dimmock & Andrew Hadfield (Ashgate, 2009), pp. 121-137.
‘Early Modern Women and Affective Devotional Reading’, European Review of History, 17. 1 (2010), 53-75.
'Early Modern Women' in A Historical Guide to the Reception of Augustine (forthcoming, Oxford University Press, 2010)
'Reading Christ the Book: Iconography and Cultures of Reading in Aemelia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (1611)', Studies in Philology, forthcoming :109.2 (2012)