Participant Info
- First Name
- Emily
- Last Name
- Stevenson
- Country
- United Kingdom
- State
- emily.stevenson@ell.ox.ac.uk
- Affiliation
- University of Oxford
- Website URL
- https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-emily-stevenson
- Keywords
- travel writing, networks, Richard Hakluyt, Principal Navigations, early modern history, sixteenth century, seventeenth century, early modern women
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
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- About Me
I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Assisstant at the University of Oxford, working on Knotted Histories: Early Modern Global Carpets, Global Exchange and the Public Country House. I have previously worked for the University of York, Newcastle University, and at Oxford on the ERC funded TIDE project (Travel, Transculturality and Identity in England c.1550-1700).
My research focuses on reconstructing the networks, both textual and social, which surrounded late sixteenth century English travel writers. My doctoral work, which was funded by Oxford through a studentship with TIDE, focused particularly on Richard Hakluyt, the editor of both editions of The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, a major source for the study of Elizabethan travel and imperial history. Using a combination of network and textual analysis I examined both the social structures which influenced Hakluyt’s editorial choices and the effects of this process on the text itself. I am currently working on a monograph based on this research, as well as a second monograph examining the use of Indigenous language lists in early modern printed travel texts.
I am also interested in gender history more widely, especially the roles of women within these social networks and the ways in which they engaged with contemporary issues surrounding travel.
- Recent Publications
Between Ship and Library: Global Knowledge and Spaces of Exchange at the Middle Temple, 1586 – 1636, in Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court (Springer, 2025)
Englishing Strangers in Richard Hakluyt’s Principal Navigations, in ‘A World of Words’: Writing Distant Travels and Linguistic Otherness in Early Modern England (c. 1550-1660) (Brepols, 2025)
‘‘Divers voyages into farre countries’: Agency in Rose Throckmorton’s Diary’, Parergon, 40.2, https://www.parergon.org/index.php/parergon/article/view/490
‘Captaining Men’s Souls: Richard Hakluyt’s Ministerial Works’, Renaissance Studies, 37: 92-110, https://doi.org/10.1111/rest.12820
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @emilylsteve
- Country Focus
- early modern England
- Expertise by Geography
- Atlantic, England, United Kingdom, Western Europe
- Expertise by Chronology
- Pre-17th century, 17th century, Early Modern
- Expertise by Topic
- Book History, Gender, Libraries & Archives, Literary History, Material Culture
