Beer, Dr Anna

Job Title: Visiting Fellow
College: Kellogg
Period/ Subject: Early Modern

Email address: anna.beer@kellogg.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests:

Recent projects nearing completion include a new reading of the literary politics of the poetry of Ralegh and Spenser, and an OUP study guide for Andrew Marvell's short poems. My research interests remain broadly focused on the literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: current areas of enquiry include the representation of the supernatural in poetry of the early sixteenth century (including The Mirror for Magistrates). Theoretical approaches to life-writing, historiography, travel writing and women's writing remain a significant focus. A teaching project, 'Literature in a Time of War', is taking me into new territory (British literature between 1938 and 1948) in terms of texts, but familiar territory in terms of the interplay between texts and social, political and religious conflict. More generally, I give frequent public lectures on topics ranging from the print culture of the seventeenth-century (for Gresham College) to music in Shakespeare (for the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment), the aim being to take the latest research, whether my own or that of fellow scholars, to a wider audience.

Teaching Areas:

Literature 1500 – 1700 (including Women’s Studies).

Recent Publications:

Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer & Patriot (2008)

Other Information:

College website

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