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School of English

Dr. Charlotte Steenbrugge

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Dr. Charlotte Steenbrugge

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New Arts, 201

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All medieval literature from the earliest Old English texts until the Reformation, literature of laughter, literary theory, textual analysis, and history of the English language. I am particularly interested in drama in the Middle Ages and Early Modern period.

Research profile:

My research focuses mainly on medieval drama but I have also looked at devils and women in medieval literature and Old English syntax. My doctoral thesis, forthcoming as a monograph, investigated the dramatic traditions of medieval and sixteenth-century England and the Low Countries and proved that these two traditions are independent and fundamentally different. Recently, I have broadened the scope of my research by looking at questions of literary authority in non-dramatic medieval literature, such as Chaucer’s Parliament of Fowls and Henryson’s Moral Fables.

Major publications:

Book

Staging Vice: A Study of Dramatic Traditions in Medieval and Sixteenth-Century England and the Low Countries (Amsterdam: Rodopi, forthcoming)

Articles

‘Books of Accounts in Everyman and Elckerlijc’ – an invited contribution to Medieval English Theatre

‘Time and Authority in Chaucer’s Parliament of Fowls’, in Chaucer at Galway, edited by Cliodhna Carney (Dublin: Four Courts Press, forthcoming)

“Haro! Haro! Sus, dyablerie’: The Theatricality of Devils in Temptation Sequences’, in Les Mystères: Studies in Text, Theatricality and Urban Drama, edited by Peter Happé and Wim Hüsken (Amsterdam: Rodopi, forthcoming), pp. 7-33

‘The Functions of the English Vice and Dutch Sinnekens: A Comparison’, Early Theatre 13 (2010), 13-41

“O, yowr louely wordys’: Latin and Latinate Diction in Mankind’, Medieval English Theatre 31 (2009), 28-56

‘Jan Smeeken: Sinnekens and Devils’, European Medieval Drama 12 (2008), 49-66

Current support for other’s research:

Representative for Great Britain, Société Internationale pour l’Étude du Théâtre Médiéval (2007-present)

Peer recognition:

I was an invited speaker at the 2011 Medieval English Theatre conference. I have recently been asked by Professors Alexandra Johnston (Toronto), Philip Butterworth (Leeds), and Pamela King (Bristol) to be a panel member for a round table session on the challenges facing the study of medieval English drama at the International Medieval Congress at Leeds