My name is Máté Vince. I am starting my third year as a PhD Student at Warwick. My research is entitled ‘From “aequivocatio” to the “Jesuitical Equivocation”’. The aim of my research is to explore the ways in which attitudes to ambiguity were formed in early modern England. The research focuses on the development of ideas about the so-called “jesuitical equivocation” or “mental reservation”, a special case of ambiguity. I explore approaches to ambiguity in early 17th century education, religious and public discourse, which serves as the historical-terminological framework for investigating the ways in which these approaches and the language of the religious polemics (especially in the aftermath of the Gunpowder Plot) were taken up and played with by Donne, Sidney and Shakespeare.

Supervisor

Professor Peter Mack

Education and Teaching experience

This year, I am teaching on the first year Medieval to Renaissance Literature module.

Before transferring to Warwick, I began my PhD at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, under the supervision of Professor Géza Kállay, with whom I also worked together as a teaching assistant on a number of courses, including Reading Macbeth Line by Line, Shakespeare’s Problem Plays, Shakespeare’s Histories. I also taught the BA seminar Medieval and Renaissance Literature on my own twice. I was a visiting scholar at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon for one term in 2008.

It was at the same university that I received my MAs in English (with TESOL qualification), in Latin and in Aesthetics.

As part of my MA in English, I studied for one semester at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven as an ERASMUS student, I participated in the English Literature Summer School at the University of Cambridge International Summer Schools.

Publications

See my Publications page

Conference Participations

See my Conferences page

Other Activities

In 2011 I co-organised the English Postgraduate Symposium.

In 2010/11 I was a co-organiser of the Arts Faculty Seminar Series, supported by the English Department, the Italian Department and the HRC.

I am a co-organiser of the Theology Reading Group, hosted by the English Department

In September 2010 I co-organised an international conference on Cultural Memory at the Department of English Studies of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.

Mate Vince

M dot Vince at warwick dot ac dot uk