Dr Fred Schurink
MA (Amsterdam), MA (London), DPhil (Oxford)
Senior Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature
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Contact details: School of Arts & Social Sciences Northumbria University Lipman Building, room 403a Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST phone: +44 (0) 191 243 7308 fax: +44 (0) 191 227 3696 fred.schurink@northumbria.ac.uk |
Biography
I grew up in the Netherlands, where I studied English and Classics at the University of Amsterdam. I came to the UK as a post-graduate student, first at the Warburg Institute in London and then at Oxford. Having held positions as a Research Associate and a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow across the road at Newcastle University, I joined the Department of Humanities at Northumbria in September 2010. I am an Associate Editor of the MHRA Tudor & Stuart Translations series and have held fellowships at various libraries in the US (the Folger, the Newberry, the Huntington, and the Houghton at Harvard).
Teaching Interests
The majority of my teaching is on the second-year core module ‘Early Modern Cultures’ and the accompanying ‘Textual Studies’, but I also contribute to the teaching on the first-year modules ’Introduction to Literary Study’ and ‘Thinking Texts’.
Research Interests
I have broad interests in early modern English literature and culture, particularly in relation to classical and renaissance Europe. My research falls into three main areas: translation; humanism, education, and rhetoric; the history of books and reading. I have a special interest in sixteenth-century literature, including authors such as Wyatt, Elyot, Ascham, Lyly, Sidney, and Shakespeare.
I am currently completing a monograph on Tudor translations of the classics, which explores how translators applied ancient texts to the political and social circumstances of sixteenth-century England, and a two-volume critical edition of selected renaissance translations of Plutarch's Essays and Lives for the MHRA Tudor & Stuart Translations series.Postgraduate Supervision
I am happy to supervise projects in the research areas outlined above.
Funding Awards
British Academy Research Visits to Partner Academies USA (Newberry and Huntington Libraries), 2010
Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, 2008-2010
Douglas W. Bryant Fellowship, Houghton Library, Harvard, 2008
Short-Term Fellowship, Folger Shakespeare Library, 2005
Affiliations and Memberships
Member of Society for Renaissance Studies
Member of The Renaissance Society of America
Selected Publications
‘Lives and Letters: Three Early Seventeenth-Century Manuscripts with Extracts from Sidney’s Arcadia’, English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700, 16 (2011), 170-96.
'Tudor Translation', (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), editor.
'The Textuality and Materiality of Reading in Early Modern England’, Special Issue of Huntington Library Quarterly, 73.3 (2010) (co-edited with Jennifer Richards)
‘The Intimacy of Manuscript and the Pleasure of Print: Literary Culture from The Schoolmaster to Euphues’, in The Oxford Handbook to Tudor Literature, 1485-1603, ed. by Mike Pincombe and Cathy Shrank (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 671-86
‘Print, Patronage, and Occasion: Translations of Plutarch’s Moralia in Tudor England’, Yearbook of English Studies, 38 (2008), 86-101
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