Contact details

Email: g dot e dot schwartz-leeper at warwick dot ac dot uk

Tel.: 02476 5 74228 (ext. 74228)

Room: R3.34 Ramphal Building

Office hours: Email me to book an appointment

Recently published: "George Cavendish's Historiographical Moment", in A Companion to the Cavendishes, eds. Lisa Hopkins and Tom Rutter (ARC Humanities, 2020). Available open access.Link opens in a new window

Recently published: "The State of the Art" in Richard II: A Critical Reader, eds. Michael Davies and Andrew Duxfield (Arden Shakespeare, 2020). Information here.Link opens in a new window

Recently published: From Princes to Pages: The Literary Lives of Cardinal Wolsey, Tudor England's 'Other King' (Brill, 2016).

Read a recent op-ed in Times Higher Education on the Teaching Excellence Framework and interdisciplinary degrees: Click here to read the article.

Watch a recent panel discussion on art and revolution at the LAZinc gallery in London:

Associate Professor

Qualifications

BA (Simon's Rock); TEFL Cert. (SIT); MA (Sheffield); PhD (Sheffield).

Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Fellow of the Warwick International Higher Education Academy (2017-2020)

Associate Fellow of the Warwick Institute for Engagement (2021-2023)

Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (RHistS)

Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA)

Profile

I was born in New York City and attended Bard College at Simon's Rock, where I obtained a BA in Liberal Arts with dual majors in east Asian religious studies and English literature. Having developed an interest in historical Englishes while a visiting student at Oxford University, I undertook a MA in English Language and Literature at the University of Sheffield under Sylvia Adamson. My MA dissertation considered the role of hyperbole in the holograph correspondence of Thomas Cardinal Wolsey and Thomas Cromwell in the final years of Wolsey's life, and subsequently I was awarded a studentship to pursue doctoral research on sixteenth-century literary representations of Wolsey at Sheffield under the supervision of Cathy Shrank. I was awarded my PhD in English Literature in 2013 after examination by Mike Pincombe and Tom Rutter.

Following on from my PhD, I was appointed the inaugural research fellow and centre coordinator for the Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies under director Phil Withington. In 2014 I came to Warwick as the Project Officer for the Migration, Identity, and Translation Network, part of the Monash-Warwick Alliance. In February 2015 I was awarded a Warwick Transatlantic Fellowship to undertake research at the Newberry Library in support of my new project, "The Art of Richard Grafton: The Cultural Networks of a Mid-Tudor Printer", which has been further supported by a fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University's Sheridan Libraries (March 2018). As the Director of Undergraduate Studies and Student Experience for the BA Liberal Arts program at Warwick, I have a strong interest in developing creative pedagogical approaches to transdisciplinary education and student support. I have also taught for the Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning at Warwick in collaboration with colleagues at Monash University, Melbourne. In 2015 I was awarded a JJ Kidd Fellowship by the European Colleges of Liberal Arts and Sciences (ECOLAS) consortium and a Strategic Research Grant by the Institute of Advanced Teaching and Learning at the University of Warwick to pursue research into liberal arts and sciences teaching and learning methodologies. I regularly serve on faculty and institutional quality assurance boards and contribute to governance/policy activities throughout the University.

My first monograph, From Princes to Pages: The Literary Lives of Cardinal Wolsey, Tudor England's 'Other King' was published by Brill in 2016. I am currently writing my second book, The Art of Richard Grafton: The Cultural Networks of a Mid-Tudor Printer. Other ongoing projects include analyses of perception and strategy in liberal education, virtual communities for interdisciplinary educators, higher education policy (especially the Teaching Excellence Framework), values-based governance in HE, and further work on the connections between George Cavendish, Thomas Churchyard, and the Mirror for Magistrates.

I previously served as external examiner for liberal arts and flexible combined honours programs at the universities of Exeter and Manchester (in the UK) and on the 2022 reaccreditation panel for Leuphana University's studium individuale degree. I currently am external examiner for the King's College London BA Liberal Arts and Imperial College London's Changemakers program.

I was appointed as Faculty Senior Tutor (Science, Engineering and Medicine) in 2022 and as Deputy Dean of Students in 2023. While most of my time is now spent in the Dean of Students' Office, I teach on several modules and supervise dissertations within Liberal Arts and the School for Cross-faculty Studies.

Teaching and research interests

My diverse interests lie in transdisciplinary approaches to issues of perception, especially in relation to uses of the past. I have previously worked on aspects of Renaissance historiography; codicology and manuscript studies; religious writings of the English Reformation; John Foxe; Thomas More; Renaissance humanist networks; Raphael Holinshed; William Shakespeare; John Skelton; George Cavendish; Thomas Cardinal Wolsey; Thomas Cromwell; early modern letterwriting; early modern landscapes; historical sociolinguistics; early modern martyrdom and its representations; Thomas Churchyard and the Mirror for Magistrates, and more recently, Richard Grafton and early modern European print cultures. I also have an active interest in the development of creative and radical pedagogies--especially in the liberal arts--and aspects of student experience and perception. I have supported multidisciplinary collaborations on labor and migration history, which has connected with my role in the Monash-Warwick Alliance's Migration, Identity, and Translation Network (MITN). Finally, I have strong interests in apocalypticism through history, pop culture, and social justice. Recently, I have been working on historical simulation video games and the ways in which they shape perceptions and uses of the past.

Current teaching

I am not currently teaching any modules in AY24-25.

Supervision

I am happy to supervise projects that deal with aspects of representations of the past, truth, and power from the Renaissance to the modern day (including cultural studies and education projects), especially ones that have an interdisciplinary or critical approach. I am also interested in radical pedagogy and HE policy/governance.

Current PhD Students:

Brit Pickering (co-supervised with Prof. Vanessa Munro, School of Law) on hate crimes in UK higher education.