English and Scottish Literature Research Events: Kate Ash-Irisarri and Eoin Price In brief Date - 28 February 2025Venue - Project Room 1.06, 50 George SquareSpeakers - Dr Kate Ash-Irisarri and Dr Eoin Price (University of Edinburgh)Chair - Dr Rebecca Tierney-Hynes (University of Edinburgh)Titles - 'The Many Miserable Hearts of Andrew of Wyntoun' (Dr Ash-Irisarri) and 'The Time of Tamburlaine: Sequels and Sequence in Elizabethan Drama' (Dr Price) About the speakersDr Kate Ash-IrisarriA first-generation student, Kate was an undergraduate at the University of Oxford, then completed an MA and PhD at The University of Manchester. Before coming to Edinburgh in 2022, she previously taught at the universities of Manchester, Liverpool Hope, Nottingham and Bristol.She also spent three years working with the University of Manchester's Widening Participation team (2010-13), first as the co-ordinator of the university's flagship secondary school access programme (Manchester Gateways) and then as the project officer for the RCUK-funded School-University Partnership Initiative (SUPI). Kate is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.She specialises in the literature of late medieval Scotland and England, with a particular focus on memory and the history of emotions.Dr Eoin PriceEoin Price completed his BA and MA in his hometown, at the University of Liverpool. He then studied for a PhD at the the Shakespeare Institute, in Stratford-upon-Avon. He worked at Swansea University for 9 years before joining the University of Edinburgh in January 2024.His work focuses on practices of playing and playgoing in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and in the textual and theatrical afterlives of plays from that period in later centuries, including our own. He is particularly invested in challenging ingrained assumptions about temporality and the early modern literary and theatrical canon.His work on early modern playgoing was funded by a Leverhulme Research Fellowship and he has received library fellowships from the Harry Ransom Center and the Huntington Library to support archival research into the performance and reception history of early modern plays in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.How to attendEach year, English and Scottish Literature hosts a variety of exciting research events featuring a fantastic range of guest speakers and colleagues.Events are free and everyone is welcome. No booking is required.Are you interested in a PhD in English Literature?We offer two PhDs: one in English Literature; and one in Creative Writing. Our interdisciplinary environment brings together specialists in all periods and genres of literature and literary analysis. Working with colleagues elsewhere in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) and across the wider University of Edinburgh, we are also able to support research which crosses further boundaries between disciplines and/or languages. Find out more about PhD study in English Literature at Edinburgh Feb 28 2025 16.00 - 17.30 English and Scottish Literature Research Events: Kate Ash-Irisarri and Eoin Price An in-person seminar by Dr Kate Ash-Irisarri and Dr Eoin Price (University of Edinburgh), with respective titles of 'The Many Miserable Hearts of Andrew of Wyntoun' and 'The Time of Tamburlaine: Sequels and Sequence in Elizabethan Drama'. Project Room 1.06 50 George Square University of Edinburgh EH8 9LH Find the venue: 50 George Square
English and Scottish Literature Research Events: Kate Ash-Irisarri and Eoin Price In brief Date - 28 February 2025Venue - Project Room 1.06, 50 George SquareSpeakers - Dr Kate Ash-Irisarri and Dr Eoin Price (University of Edinburgh)Chair - Dr Rebecca Tierney-Hynes (University of Edinburgh)Titles - 'The Many Miserable Hearts of Andrew of Wyntoun' (Dr Ash-Irisarri) and 'The Time of Tamburlaine: Sequels and Sequence in Elizabethan Drama' (Dr Price) About the speakersDr Kate Ash-IrisarriA first-generation student, Kate was an undergraduate at the University of Oxford, then completed an MA and PhD at The University of Manchester. Before coming to Edinburgh in 2022, she previously taught at the universities of Manchester, Liverpool Hope, Nottingham and Bristol.She also spent three years working with the University of Manchester's Widening Participation team (2010-13), first as the co-ordinator of the university's flagship secondary school access programme (Manchester Gateways) and then as the project officer for the RCUK-funded School-University Partnership Initiative (SUPI). Kate is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.She specialises in the literature of late medieval Scotland and England, with a particular focus on memory and the history of emotions.Dr Eoin PriceEoin Price completed his BA and MA in his hometown, at the University of Liverpool. He then studied for a PhD at the the Shakespeare Institute, in Stratford-upon-Avon. He worked at Swansea University for 9 years before joining the University of Edinburgh in January 2024.His work focuses on practices of playing and playgoing in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and in the textual and theatrical afterlives of plays from that period in later centuries, including our own. He is particularly invested in challenging ingrained assumptions about temporality and the early modern literary and theatrical canon.His work on early modern playgoing was funded by a Leverhulme Research Fellowship and he has received library fellowships from the Harry Ransom Center and the Huntington Library to support archival research into the performance and reception history of early modern plays in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.How to attendEach year, English and Scottish Literature hosts a variety of exciting research events featuring a fantastic range of guest speakers and colleagues.Events are free and everyone is welcome. No booking is required.Are you interested in a PhD in English Literature?We offer two PhDs: one in English Literature; and one in Creative Writing. Our interdisciplinary environment brings together specialists in all periods and genres of literature and literary analysis. Working with colleagues elsewhere in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) and across the wider University of Edinburgh, we are also able to support research which crosses further boundaries between disciplines and/or languages. Find out more about PhD study in English Literature at Edinburgh Feb 28 2025 16.00 - 17.30 English and Scottish Literature Research Events: Kate Ash-Irisarri and Eoin Price An in-person seminar by Dr Kate Ash-Irisarri and Dr Eoin Price (University of Edinburgh), with respective titles of 'The Many Miserable Hearts of Andrew of Wyntoun' and 'The Time of Tamburlaine: Sequels and Sequence in Elizabethan Drama'. Project Room 1.06 50 George Square University of Edinburgh EH8 9LH Find the venue: 50 George Square
Feb 28 2025 16.00 - 17.30 English and Scottish Literature Research Events: Kate Ash-Irisarri and Eoin Price An in-person seminar by Dr Kate Ash-Irisarri and Dr Eoin Price (University of Edinburgh), with respective titles of 'The Many Miserable Hearts of Andrew of Wyntoun' and 'The Time of Tamburlaine: Sequels and Sequence in Elizabethan Drama'.
