Stamatakis, Chris Dr

Job Title: Leverhulme Post-doctoral Fellow
College: Lincoln
Period/ Subject: Early Modern

Email address: chris.stamatakis@lincoln.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests:

Renaissance literature, especially early-Tudor poetry; reception of classical and continental literature; psalm paraphrase; early-modern letter-writing; the history of the book, manuscript circulation, textual scholarship and digital editing.

Teaching Areas:

FHS Paper 1 (The English Language); Paper 2 (Shakespeare); Paper 4 (1509-1642); Paper 5 (1642-1740); Paper 7 (Marvell, et al.).
History and English Mods Paper 1 (Bridge Paper).

Recent Publications:

(2011) Sir Thomas Wyatt and Verbal Transformation: "Turning the Word" in Early Tudor Literary Practice, Oxford: OUP (Oxford English Monographs), under consideration.

(2011) 'Memorial Echo: Elegies on Sir Thomas Wyatt', forthcoming.

Recent Presentations:

'My word nor I shall not be variable': Reading Sir Thomas Wyatt's Life and Letters, Literature and History in Early Modern England Seminar, Lincoln College (Trinity 2010).

'Redeeming the Word: Sir Thomas Wyatt and the Psalm Paraphrase Tradition', Medieval Church and Culture Seminar, Harris Manchester College (Hilary 2010).

'Redemptive Paraphrase in Wyatt's Penitential Psalms', Early Modern Literature Graduate Forum, Merton College (Michaelmas 2009).

Other Information:

Handouts from my lectures are available from Weblearn

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