Dr Marcus Nevitt
School of English
Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Literature


+44 114 222 8487
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School of English
Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
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S3 7RA
- Profile
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I was appointed as a lecturer in Renaissance Literature here at ºù«Ӱҵ in 2002. This was a welcome return home having spent four years at ºù«Ӱҵ some time previously as both PhD student and Teaching Fellow.
In the intervening three years, I taught in the English Literature departments of the University of Hertfordshire and the University of Leeds.
My first book, Women and the Pamphlet Culture of Revolutionary England was a study of the relationships between cheap print and female agency in the English Civil wars. I also research relationships between news and print culture and co-edited with Michael J. Braddick, Seventeenth-Century Journalism and the Digital Age (2017) Since then, I´ve also developed an interest in Restoration theatre and genre, co-authoring, with Tanya Pollard, (Bloomsbury 2019). I’m also one of the contributing editors to the forthcoming CUP edition of the . My next book is a study of Restoration theatre and patronage. I also review regularly for The Spectator.
- Research interests
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I specialise in seventeenth-century literature. I have written principally on cheap print and my monograph, Women and the Pamphlet Culture of Revolutionary England was published by Ashgate in 2006. I have written articles on Ben Jonson and news writing in the seventeenth century, as well as numerous pieces on interregnum royalism and its connection to Restoration culture.
I am currently working on a study of Restoration theatre patronage.
- Publications
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Books
Edited books
Journal articles
Chapters
Book reviews
Conference proceedings papers
- Research group
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I welcome applications from potential research students in all of my research areas.
- Grants
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AHRC Speculative Research Grant £200,000 for ‘Participating in Search Design: A Study of George Thomason’s Newsbooks’:
HEIF 4 Grant, £10,000 (for pilot project with Derbyshire Record Office: ‘Accessing the Regional Archive: The Wheatcroft MSS’)
- Teaching activities
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I teach on the following modules:
- LIT107 - Introduction to Advanced Literary Studies 1
- LIT2000 - Genre
- LIT234 - Renaissance Poetry and Prose
- LIT207 - Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature.
- LIT3028/ LIT6008 - Writing the English Civil War (undergraduate and MA modules)