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staff list  BackDr Astrid Stilma

  • Job title: Senior Lecturer
  • Dept: English and Language Studies
  • Tel: 01227 767700 ext 3828
  • Campus: Canterbury
A Stilma

 

Senior Lecturer (English)  

Appointed 2006

Astrid Stilma MA (Amsterdam 1997), PhD (Amsterdam 2005)

Office: Es19
Ext: 3828

Astrid Stilma is Year Leader for Year 2. She teaches various undergraduate modules on Shakespeare, Drama, and Early Modern Literature, and an MA module on Christopher Marlowe.

Her research and teaching interests include: the literature of the courts of King James VI and I; Elizabethan and Jacobean drama;  the representation of monarchy in early modern literature, and especially royal self-representation; literary Republicanism; war and peace in early modern literature; early modern historiography; translation; religio-political propaganda; drama in performance (stage and screen); magic and religion as themes in early modern literature.

She is author of A King Translated: James VI and I and the Dutch Interpretations of his Works, 1593-1603 (Ashgate, forthcoming), and several book chapters on King James, George Buchanan, and more generally on religion and politics in the Elizabethan and Jacobean period. She is currently working on a book-length project on the Jacobean poet and statesman Sir William Alexander.

Publications include:

“The Battle of Lepanto: the Introduction of James VI of Scotland to the Dutch”, in Ralph Houlbrooke (ed.), James VI and I: Ideas, Authority and Government (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006), pp. 9-23

“Justifying War: Dutch Translations of Scottish Books around 1600”, in Andrew Hiscock (ed.), Mighty Europe 1400-1700: Writing an Early Modern Continent (Oxford, Bern etc: Peter Lang, 2007), pp. 55-70

 “King James as a Religious Writer”, in Crawford Gribben and David George Mullan (eds), Literature and the Scottish Reformation (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009), pp. 127-41

 “‘As Warriouris in Ane Camp’: the Image of King James VI as a Crusader”, in Kevin J. McGinley and Nicola Royan (eds), The Apparelling of Truth: Literature and Literary Culture in the Reign of James VI (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010), pp. 241-51

“Tyrants and Translations: Dutch Interpretations of George Buchanan’s Political Thought”, in Roger A. Mason (ed.), George Buchanan (Ashgate, forthcoming in 2011)

“Sir William Alexander, King James, and neo-Stoic advice to princes in The Monarchick Tragedies”, in David Parkinson (ed.), New Departures in the Culture of the Reign(s) of James VI & I [working title], (Leuven: Peeters, forthcoming in 2011)


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