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e-portfolio of Imogen Knox

Research

My doctoral research, 'Self-destructive desires and the supernatural in early modern Britain', was supervised by Professor Peter MarshallLink opens in a new window and Dr Naomi PullinLink opens in a new window, and funded by the Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training PartnershipLink opens in a new window. My project explored the ways in which early modern people expressed and enacted feelings of suicide and self harm in supernatural narratives. These narratives provide an insight into how individuals conceptualised and negotiated suicidal ideation during a time where the act of suicide was not only criminal, but resulted in eternal damnation.

I passed my viva with no corrections in July 2024.

Research Interests

  • Histories of mental health and wellbeing
  • Early modern religion and supernatural belief
  • History of emotion
  • Gender and masculinity
  • Laughter and humour

Publications

Articles

'Faithful men and false women: Love-suicide in early modern English popular print', Gender & History (2024) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1468-0424.12805 

'Pin-swallowing and self-destruction in early modern British and Irish supernatural narratives', Cultural & Social History 20:4 (2023) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14780038.2023.2189407Link opens in a new window

(co-authored with Sophie Pain and Shakira Hanany Abd Rahman) 'Editorial: PGR Teachers and the (Post) Pandemic World', Journal of Postgraduate Pedagogic Practice 2 (2022) https://doi.org/10.31273/jppp.vol2.2022.1223Link opens in a new window

Blog Posts

Reports

Conferences & Papers

Teaching

Imogen teaching at the EUTOPIA summer school

Responsibilities

Public Engagement

Imogen Knox and Daniel Gettings fortune tellingThe cast of Ghosts, Fairies and a Wombful of Rabbits

Fortune telling with a sieve and shears Presenting at the RSA in Dublin

Awards and Funding

Courses and Qualifications

Additional Achievements

Biography

2020 - 2024 University of Warwick, PhD History (Passed with no corrections)

  • Thesis 'Self-destructive desires and the supernatural in early modern Britain'
  • Visiting researcher at TU Dresden, May-July 2023

2019 - 2020 Manchester Metropolitan University, Assistant Careers Adviser in Arts & Humanities

  • Before starting my PhD I worked in HE Careers, working directly with students to enhance their employability

2018 - 2019 University of Exeter, MA History (Distinction)

  • Dissertation 'Suicide, Self-Harm, and the Supernatural in England, 1560-1735', supervised by Professor Jonathan Barry

2015 - 2018 University of Exeter, BA History (First Class)

  • Dissertation 'Bewitched Children in Late Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England', supervised by Dr Laura Sangha

Imogen Knox

Dr Imogen Knox

she/her

Imogen.H.Knox@warwick.ac.uk

Additional links and info:

Twitter: @Imogen_KnoxLink opens in a new window

Bluesky: @ImogenKnoxLink opens in a new window

Associate Fellow of the HEA

Advance HE CATE Winner

Stars & SievesLink opens in a new window online exhibition (collab with Dr Martha McGill)

Read my blog post, on suicide jokes in early modern EnglandLink opens in a new window

Merry jests of the widow Edith frontispiece

Terrible ImaginationsLink opens in a new window - my (currently dormant) blog on early modern supernatural resonances in modern horror

Listen to my podcast appearance discussing early modern witchcraftLink opens in a new window

Resonate Festival poster advertising fortune telling event