My main area of interest lies in the period 1630-1660, and in particular gender, sexual and political identity.
My monograph, Royalist Identities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), considered the legal, social and cultural pressures attendant upon supporters of the king during the 1640s.
I would be happy to supervise in the following areas:
- Royalism
- Mapping and space
- The court, 1642-60
- Restoration politics
- John Milton
- Translation, 1630-80
- Prison Writing
- Early modern pedagogy and gender
- Royalist women's autobiography.
- Manuscript coteries
- The inns of court during the 1630s
My secondary research interest is in contemporary popular history. Consuming History is published by Routledge and concerns the ways in which contemporary popular culture engages with history: there are chapters on historical film, television (documentary and drama), museums, computer games, re-enactment and novel writing.
The Historical Novel (Routledge New Critical Idiom series) is due to be published in 2009.
