Participant Info
- First Name
- Emily
- Last Name
- Stevenson
- Country
- United Kingdom
- State
- emily.stevenson@ell.ox.ac.uk
- Affiliation
- University of Oxford
- Website URL
- http://www.tideproject.uk/people/
- 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 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 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
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @emilylsteve
- Country Focus
- early modern England
- Expertise by Geography
- 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
