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Dr Catie Gill
Tel: +44 01509 222932
Role: Lecturer in English
Email: C.J.Gill@lboro.ac.uk
Room QQ103, John Hardie, East Park
Publications
I was appointed as ‘Lecturer in Early Modern Writing’ in 2007, and I teach on core modules ('Critical Studies' and ‘British Drama’), as well as a range of courses about seventeenth-century literature at undergraduate and postgraduate level (‘Women’s Writing in the Seventeenth Century’, ‘Writing of the English Revolution’, amongst others). I also supervise Ph.D. and M.A. dissertations, particularly those where the focus is on political writing, 1640-1700. My own dissertation was supervised by Elaine Hobby.
My first book, Women in the Seventeenth-Century Quaker Community (Ashgate, 2005), was a study of collectivist thought. I examined how the Quaker movement constructed its political and religious identity in print, and assessed women’s part in this process. I then edited Theatre and Culture in Early Modern England, 1650-1737 (Ashgate 2010), which explores developments in both tragedy and comedy, and literary production, during the period from Leviathan to the Licensing Act. For a full list of the essays and contributors, see the web-site detailed below. I have also written essays on religious women for the journals Women’s Writing, Quaker Studies, Prose Studies, and The Huntingdon Library Quarterly (the HLQ volume winning the MLA Voyager prise). Most recently, I published an article in Expanding the Canon of Early Modern Women’s Writing, ed. by Paul Salzman, about Quakers imprisoned by the Italian Inquisition. I am currently interested in seventeenth-century heresy, specifically a branch of Christian thought called Socinianism. Hence, I am writing an article about William Chillingworth, who was accused by a Jesuit writer of holding Socinian beliefs. This work has been aided by a Small Research Grant from the British Academy. Forthcoming work will also include an article on prose romances by Margaret Cavendish (Embattled Desires, ed. by Andrew Monnickendam and Joan Curbet).