We bring together academics and students with shared research interests c.1550-1800.
The Early Modern Research Group (EMRG) gathers ºÚÁÏÍø staff and external scholars with a range of interests, including:
- Medieval drama and pageantry
- Shakespeare and the Jacobeans
- Witchcraft and the devil during the Renaissance
- Irish history after the Restoration
- Seventeenth-century landscape poetry
- Long eighteenth century in fiction, poetry and journalism.
The group is directed by Prof. Nicoleta Cinpoes.
 
Staff, associates and postgraduate researchers 
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Director of the EMRG 
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Professor of Theatre Studies 
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Principal Lecturer in History and Politics 
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Professor of Early Modern History 
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Lecturer in English Literature 
 
 
 
Associate Members 
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Dr Erin Peters
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Benjamin Humphrey
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Dr Rachel Johnson
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Dr Maria J. Lorenzo-Modia
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Dr Aino Ma'kikalli
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Dr David Morrison
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Dr Maddalena Pennacchia
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Christine Penney
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Dr Veronika Schandl
 
 
 
Research Students 
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Lucy CooperLucy Cooper - PhD Candidate, English Department 
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Guillaume FoulquieGuillaume Foulquie - PhD Candidate 
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Ceri FowlerCeri Fowler - Researcher 
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Laura WilkesLaura Wilkes - MRes Student 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Related courses
The Masters by Research in History is an advanced postgraduate degree which can either be taken as a stand-alone qualification or as progression route into doctoral research.