Shakespeare Institute Doctoral researcher profiles

The Shakespeare Institute has a vibrant postgraduate community, carrying out research in a broad range of areas. Profiles of some of our current doctoral researchers and details of their research are listed below:

Students at the Shakespeare Institute

Tom Cook

Tom Cook

Doctoral researcher

PhD title: ‘The Famous Scenic Poet’: Shakespeare and the Art of English Verse, 1587–97
SupervisorDr Erin Sullivan and Dr Robert Stagg
PhD Shakespeare Studies

Meryl Faiers

Meryl Faiers

Doctoral researcher

PhD title: The commercial infrastructure of the London theatre profession in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, examining the costs of playhouse building and operation, income and profitability through the lives and careers of Philip Henslowe and John Heminges.
Supervisor: Professor Tiffany Stern and Dr Tara Hamling
PhD Shakespeare Studies

Olivia Langford

Olivia Langford

Doctoral researcher

PhD title: ‘The raven doth not hatch a lark’: The alien and maternal bodies of William Shakespeare’s non-English mothers'
Supervisors: Dr Chris Laoutaris and Dr Simon Smith
PhD Shakespeare Studies

Jennifer Moss-Waghorn

Jennifer Moss-Waghorn

Doctoral researcher

PhD title: The composition, adaptation and afterlife of music composed by Robert Johnson and John Wilson for the Jacobean stage
Supervisor: Dr Martin Wiggins (Shakespeare Institute), Dr Mary O'Neill (Centre for Early Music Performance and Research)
PhD Shakespeare Studies

Jane Nead

Jane Nead

Doctoral researcher

PhD title: ‘You have beguiled me with a counterfeit’: The Hallmark of Truth and the Exposure of Artifice in Shakespeare’s Work
Supervisor: Dr Will Sharpe and Dr Ann-Marie Carey (Birmingham City University)
PhD Shakespeare Studies

Sue Tupman

Sue Tupman

Doctoral Researcher

PhD title: Early modern apprentices - their representations in drama and their relationship to wider apprentice culture (provisional)
Supervisor: Dr Simon Smith and Dr Chris Laoutaris 
PhD Shakespeare Studies

Juliano Zaffino

Juliano Zaffino

Doctoral researcher

PhD title: Cutting Shakespeare: Promptbook Practice at the RSC
Supervisor: Dr Abigail-Rokison-Woodall (Shakespeare Institute) and Jacqui O’Hanlon  (Royal Shakespeare Company)
PhD Shakespeare Studies