Verweij, Dr Sebastiaan

Job Title: Post-doctoral Research Assistant (The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne)
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Period/Subject: Early Modern E-mail address: sebastiaan.verweij@ell.ox.ac.uk

Research interests:

My research interests are two-fold. Firstly, I am the AHRC Research Associate for the Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne. A team of international editors led by General Editor Peter McCullough will produce the first annotated critical edition of the sermons (16 volumes, for Oxford University Press). My responsibility in the project mainly involves bibliographical research (collation, establishing copy text, transcription), as well as the co-authoring of the Textual Companion (Volume 16), which is scheduled for publication in 2015. This Textual Companion will present the full bibliographical history of the sermons, from the earliest manuscript (c. 1620) to the latest printed folio (1660/1), and include discussion of, for example, Donne’s presentation copies, the manuscript context of Donne’s sermons in miscellanies, and printers’ textual revisions.

Secondly, I work on the literature and book history of Early Modern Scotland. My first book is in preparation: The Literary Culture of Early Modern Scotland: Manuscript Production and Circulation, c. 1579-1625. This will be the first book-length study of its kind. Three chapters will discuss places of manuscript production (court, city, country), whereas another three will take a more thematic approach and discuss modes of manuscript verse (women and the manuscript book; English verse in Scottish manuscripts; and manuscript verse and politics). I have further written articles and book chapters on Scottish book illustration, manuscript poetry, the influence of English poet Edward Dyer on Scottish writing, and on the Scottish sonneteer William Fowler. I am also engaged with a major bibliographical resource: An Index of First Lines of Older Scots Poetry, 1475-1625. I also have a strong interest in humanities computing, and have recently co-written a chapter (with Angus Vine) on representation of non-linear manuscript texts in XML (TEI P5).

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Recent Publications:

• ‘Ten Sonnets from Scotland: Text, Context and Coterie Writing in CUL MS Kk.5.30’, English Manuscript Studies, 16 (forthcoming 2010)

• ‘Illustrating Printed Books and Manuscripts’, in Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Vol. 1,From the Earliest Times to 1700, ed. Sally Mapstone and Alastair Mann (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2010)

• [with Angus Vine] ‘Digitizing Reversed Manuscripts’, in Digitizing Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture, ed. by Brent Nelson and Melissa Terras (Tempe, AZ: Arizona Medieval and Renaissance Studies, forthcoming 2010)

• ‘The Manuscripts of William Fowler: A Revaluation of The Tarantula of Love, A Sonnet Sequence, and Of Death’, Scottish Studies Review, 8:2 (2007), pp. 9-23
  

Other Information:

I am the co-founding editor of the electronic, open-access Journal of the Northern Renaissance. I am also a Member of Council for the Scottish Text Society.

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