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Dr Shanyn Altman

Post:PG English Student (Centre for Early Modern and Medieval Studies)
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Biography

Publications

Book

Witnessing to the Faith: Absolutism and the Conscience in John Donne’s England (Manchester: Manchester University Press, forthcoming)

 

Edited Book

with Jonathan Buckner and Nicole Mennell, Old St Paul’s and Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming)

 

Book Section

with Jonathan Buckner, ‘Introduction’, in Old St Paul’s and Culture, ed. by Shanyn Altman, Jonathan Buckner and Nicole Mennell (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming)

 

‘“An anxious entangling and perplexing of consciences”: John Donne and Catholic Recusant Mendacity’, in European Journal of English Studies: Mendacity in Early Modern Literature and Culture, ed. by Ingo Berensmeyer and Andrew Hadfield, Special Issues as Books Series (London: Routledge, 2016), pp. 46-58

 

Article

‘Martyrdom and Renaissance Literature’, in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature (Oxford University Press, forthcoming), 10,000 words

 

‘“An anxious entangling and perplexing of consciences”: John Donne and Catholic Recusant Mendacity’, in European Journal of English Studies: Mendacity in Early Modern Literature and Culture. 19.2 (2015), 176-188

 

‘John Donne: Devotions’, in English Renaissance: Elizabethan and Jacobean Periods, 1485-1625. 1.2 (2014), 1,587 words.

 

‘John Donne: Ignatius His Conclave’, in English Renaissance: Elizabethan and Jacobean Periods, 1485-1625. 1.2 (2014), 1,750 words

 

Conference Organisation and Successful Funding Applications

  • Co-organiser (with Dr Katrina Marchant-Stone and Dr Nicole Mennell) – Old St Paul’s and Culture, St Paul’s Cathedral, July 2017. This international conference brought Sussex’s Centre for Early Modern and Medieval Studies (CEMMS) together with Shakespeare’s Globe and the Institute of Historical Research. Funding secured: £2,500 from CEMMS; CHASE; and the University of Sussex Doctoral School
  • Co-organiser (with Dr Lana Harper) – Literature and Philosophy, 1500-1700, University of Sussex, July 2015. Funding secured: £1,500 from the Society of Renaissance Studies; CEMMS; the UoS Doctoral School; and the Researcher-Led Initiative Fund
  • Co-organiser (with Bristol postgraduate team) – Worlds Built from Words: Literary Environments, University of Bristol, April, 2010. Funding secured: £1,700 from the University of Bristol’s School of English; the Bristol University Alumni Foundation; the Bristol Institute for Research in the Humanities and Arts; and the British Association for Romantic Studies

Invitations

  • Invited to give the annual early career lecture on ‘Shakespeare and the Art of Self-Sacrifice’, ‘These are the Youths that Thunder Event’, Shakespeare’s Globe, 2017
  • Invited to deliver a paper on ‘Rewriting the Figure of the Martyr: John Donne and the Foundation of Christianity’, Tudor & Stuart History seminar series, Institute of Historical Research, January 2017

Role

Teaching Fellow

Activities