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Doctoral researchers at the Shakespeare Institute

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:

  • Nic Brownlie

    Doctoral researcher

    PhD title: Effects of illumination in Shakespeare's late plays.

  • Juliano Zaffino

    Doctoral researcher

    PhD title: Cutting Shakespeare: promptbook practice at the RSC.

  • Michelle Michel

    Doctoral researcher

    PhD title: A bibliographic analysis of the titles printed by printer/publisher John Danter between 1591 and 1599.

  • Kathryn Twigg

    Doctoral researcher

    PhD title: The trauma-informed teaching of Shakespeare.

  • Meryl Faiers

    Doctoral researcher

    PhD title: The commercial infrastructure of the London theatre profession in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

  • Sue Tupman

    Doctoral Researcher

    PhD title: Early modern apprentices - their representations in drama and their relationship to wider apprentice culture.

  • Isaac Chong

    Doctoral researcher

    PhD title: Towards Dunsinane: examining Macbeth's witchcraft in intercultural adaptation.

  • Sarah Hodgson

    Doctoral researcher

    PhD title: Procuring immortality: eschatological reform and the pursuit of worldly fame in English Renaissance literature.

  • Emily Zempel Roberts

    Doctoral researcher

    PhD title: "Cues for Passion": analyzing and embodying emotion through acting techniques in Shakespearean performance.