Dr Chloe Fairbanks
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About
BA American University; MLitt University of St Andrews; DPhil Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford
I am a scholar of early modern literature with particular interests in transculturality and how drama interacts with other nascent, non-literary early modern forms. My current research focuses on the ways in which early modern Londoners understood and experienced cultural difference at the level of daily practice. Bringing together a diverse range of texts including drama, instruction books, and parliamentary legislation, my work foregrounds how difference across shifting class structures was assimilated rather than resisted.
I am presently revising my doctoral thesis into a monograph entitled Earth, Realm, England: National Identity and the Land in Shakespeare’s English Histories.
As well as being an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Warwick, I am a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Coventry University.
Selected publications
‘“Here’s company”: Fractured Englishness and Conflicted Communities in The Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry V’, Shakespeare Survey, 78 (forthcoming November 2025)
Co-editing special issue of the Journal of Early Modern Studies on Material Space and Literary Production c.1500-1651 with Catherine Jenkinson. Forthcoming March 2026.
‘Minced in a charger for a Gallimaufrey’: reconciling the local and the global in Shakespeare’s ‘Falstaff’ plays. Food & History. Forthcoming 2024.
‘“Maister of the earth’? Reassessing the Monarch as Husbandman Metaphor in Shakespeare’s Histories’, Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism (2023). DOI: 10.1080/14688417.2023.2274410
‘Anne Boleyn: Harbinger of the English Reformation’, in English Consorts: Power, Influence, Dynasty, Vol. 3: Tudor and Stuart Consorts, ed. Aidan Norrie (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022). Co-authored with Samuel Lane.