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Dr Liz Oakley-Brown

Lecturer in Renaissance Writing

Current Teaching

At undergraduate level, Liz lectures on film versions of Hamlet (ENGL100) and The Body (ENGL201), and lectures and takes seminars on ENGL202: Renaissance to Restoration: English Literature 1580-1688 and ENGL306:Shakespeare.

In 2009-10 she will teach the half-unit option, ENGL374: Reforming the Body in Elizabethan England.

Future courses include Early Modern Outlaws: On Land and Sea, which explores Robin Hood legends and piracy from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth centuries.

Administration:

Director of Part I (Terms 2 and 3; 2009-10)

Course Convenor: ENGL374

Research Interests

Liz Oakley-Brown's main area of research is concerned with the construction of early modern identities (1480-1700). Her publications include the co-edited collection Translation and Nation: Towards a Cultural Politics of Englishness (with Roger Ellis, Multilingual Matters, 2001) and the monograph Ovid and the Cultural Politics of Translation in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2006).

She is currently working on an edited collection, Shakespeare and the Translation of Identity in Early Modern England (Continuum, contracted for 2010) and two book-length studies: Shakespearean Skins: Reading, Writing and Performing Corporeal Surfaces in Sixteenth-Century Drama and Travel, Translation and Identity in the Works of Thomas Churchyard (1523?-1604).

Liz joined The Department in 2006. Shecompleted her BA, MA and PhD at Cardiff University, and has previously taught at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth (2001-4) and Canterbury Christ Church University (2004-6).

Liz is an elected member of the Society for Renaissance Studies Council ( May 2008 onwardshttp://www.rensoc.org.uk/), and is part of the Renaissance Editorial Board for Literature Compass (September 2009 onwards www.literature-compass.com).

Potential Doctoral Proposals

At postgraduate and reseach levels, Liz is affiliated with the innovative work of The Shakespeare Programme. With Professor Alison Findlay, Liz convened a panel on 'Shakespearean Surfaces' at the 2007 British Shakespeare Association conference. As part of this ongoing project, Alison and Liz directed a workshop on 'Ceremony, Performance and Practice in Shakespearean Drama' at the 2009 BSA conference at King's College, London: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/news/conferences/localglobal/workshops.html

Liz's interests are wide. She would welcome research students working on early modern culture and writing - especially translations into English - corporeality, outlaws and travel.

Select Publications

Book

Ovid and the Cultural Politics of Translation in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2006).

Edited Books and Special Issues of Journals

ed. Shakespeare and the Translation of Identity in Early Modern England (Continuum, contracted 2010).

ed. Early Modern Ovid: The Metamorphoses in English (1550-1565) (Trent Editions, contracted 2010).

ed. (with Anne Cronin) Urban Spaces, special issue of Feminist Review (issue 96, forthcoming 2010).

ed. (with Louise Wilkinson) The Rituals and Rhetoric of Queenship: Medieval to Early Modern (Four Courts Press, in press).

ed. (with Roger Ellis) Translation and Nation: Towards a Cultural Politics of Englishness (Multilingual Matters, 2001).

Journal Articles

'Taxonomies of Travel and Martial Identity in Thomas Churchyard's A generall rehearsall of warres and 'A Pirates Tragedie' (1579), Studies in Travel Writing 12.1 (2008): 67-84.

'Titus Andronicus and the Cultural Politics of Translation in Early Modern England', Renaissance Studies 19.3 (2005): 325-47.

'Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Sexual Politics of Translation in Early Modern England', Literature Compass, 1, 2003, 1-19.

Chapters in Books

"The text is old, the orator to green": Translation, Oration and Youthful Identity in Venus and Adonis', in Shakespeare and the Translation of Identity in Early Modern England (Continuum, contracted 2010).

'Translation' for The Blackwell Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture, rev. ed. by Michael Hattaway (7000-word essay, forthcoming 2010).

'Resources: Mapping Texts, Spaces, Bodies' in Women Beware Women, ed. by Andrew Hiscock, Continuum Renaissance Drama Series, forthcoming 2010).

"'My lord, be ruled by me": Shakespeare's Tamora and the failure of queenship', in The Rituals and Rhetoric of Queenship: Medieval to Early Modern, ed. by Liz Oakley-Brown and Louise Wilkinson(Four Courts Press, in press), pp. 222-37.

'Framing Robin Hood: Textuality and Temporality in Anthony Munday's Huntington Plays', in Robin Hood: Medieval and Post-Medieval , ed. by Helen Phillips (Four Courts Press, 2005), pp. 113-128.

'Translating the Subject: Ovid's Metamorphoses in England 1560-67', in Translation and Nation: Towards A Cultural Politics of Englishness, ed. by Roger Ellis and Liz Oakley-Brown (Multilingual Matters, 2001), pp. 48-84.

Other Publications

'Thomas Churchyard' and 'Arthur Golding', in The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature, ed. by Garrett Sullivan and Alan Stewart (Blackwell, forthcoming).

'Love in Renaissance Literature', in Encyclopedia of Love in World Religions, ed. by Yudit Kornberg Greenberg (ABC-Clio, 2007).

(with Matt Jarvis) 'Talking After Theory: An Interview with Terry Eagleton', English, 53 (2004): 177-190 .

'The Cultural Politics of Classical Translation', English, 52.202 (2003): 81-85.

Associated Keywords: Adaptation, Cultural geography, Early modern culture, Early modern writing, English, Identity politics, Landscape, Literary criticism, Literature, Literature and politics, Literature and power, Outlaws, Ovid, Queenship, Renaissance drama, Ritual studies, Sexualities, Shakespeare, Sixteenth-century culture, Sixteenth-century literature, Skin, Spatiality, Subjectivity, Textual criticism, The body, Theory, Translation, War, Word and image studies

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