Our Team

Dr. Emma Depledge is a Professor of English Literature at the University of Neuchâtel. Specialising in seventeenth and eighteenth-century British literature, her research interests include authorship studies, book and theatre history, and royalist writing.

Emma Depledge

Project Leader

Dr. Emma Depledge is a Professor of English Literature at the University of Neuchâtel. Specialising in seventeenth and eighteenth-century British literature, her research interests include authorship studies, book and theatre history, and royalist writing.

Dr. Depledge is writing a book on the relationship between mock-heroic poetry and the London book trade, 1660-1740.

Dr Depledge is the author of Shakespeare’s Rise to Cultural Prominence: Print, Politics and Alteration, 1642-1700 (CUP, 2018, pbk 2022). She is also co-editor of Making Milton: Print, Authorship, Afterlives (OUP, 2021) with John Garrison and Marissa Nicosia, as well as Canonising Shakespeare: Stationers and the Book Trade, 1640-1740 (CUP, 2017, pbk 2022) with Peter Kirwan. She has also co-edited issue 85 of the Huntington Library Quarterly: Performance and the Papter Stage, 1642-1695 with Rachel Willie.

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Indira Ghose is Professor Emerita of Early Modern English Literature at the University of Fribourg. In 2011-18 she was Partner Investigator at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100-1800).

Indira Ghose

Project Leader

Indira Ghose is Professor Emerita of Early Modern English Literature at the University of Fribourg. In 2011-18 she was Partner Investigator at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100-1800).

Professor Ghose is editing Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1 for The Oxford Shakespeare series, forthcoming with OUP in 2023/4. Her chapter “Jesting and the Politics of Memory”, in Memory and Affect in Shakespeare’s England, eds. Jonathan Baldo and Isabel Karremann, will be published with CUP in 2023.

Professor Ghose’s most recent monographs are: Shakespeare in Jest, published by Routledge in 2021; Much Ado About Nothing: Language and Writing, published by Bloomsbury in 2018.

Dr Douglas Clark is a researcher in the Institute of English Studies at the University of Neuchâtel. He specialises in sixteenth and seventeenth-century British literature. He was a Newberry Library fellow through 2022.

Douglas Clark

Senior Researcher and Web Developer

Dr Douglas Clark is a researcher in the Institute of English Studies at the University of Neuchâtel. He specialises in sixteenth and seventeenth-century British literature. He was a Newberry Library fellow through 2022.

Dr Clark’s first book The Will in English Renaissance Drama is forthcoming with CUP. His article ‘John Donne and the Legacy of Early Modern Verse’, will appear in Studies in Philology 120, no.2 (2023). His article ‘The Transgressive Will from Marlowe to Cary’ will appear in Vol. 36 of Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England (2023).

Dr Clark’s most recent article is: ‘The Will and Testament in English Renaissance Drama: Paper Props, Property, and Ulpian Fulwell’s “Like Will to Like”‘, Renaissance Drama 50.1 (2022): 103-130.

Dr. Erzsi (Elizabeth) Kukorelly is chargée d’enseignement at the University of Geneva. Her research interests include the early English novel, early eighteenth-century cultural studies, and interdisciplinary approaches to literary studies.

Elizabeth Kukorelly

Senior Researcher

Dr. Erzsi (Elizabeth) Kukorelly is chargée d’enseignement at the University of Geneva. Her research interests include the early English novel, early eighteenth-century cultural studies, and interdisciplinary approaches to literary studies.

Dr Kukorelly is writing a monograph on eighteenth-century English and French translations of conduct books for young ladies. She will also coordinate workshops on book history and bibliography for high-school students in Neuchâtel at the city public library (the BPUN) in March-April 2023.

Dr Kukorelly’s most recently published: ‘John Dunton’s The Ladies Dictionary: Active Reading for Rational Conduct’, in Words, Books, Images, and the Long Eighteenth Century. Essays for Allen Reddick.  Antoinina Bevan Zlatar, Mark Ittensohn, Enit Karafili Steiner and Olga Timofeeva eds. (Amsterdam: John Benjamin, 2021), 37-57.