Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature

Email: elizabeth.scott-baumann@wadh.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests

My research is on early modern English literature, especially seventeenth-century poetry, women’s writing and questions of literary influence and poetic form. I am currently working on a monograph, provisionally entitled Forms of Engagement: Women, Poetry and Culture, 1640-1680, focusing on poetry by Lucy Hutchinson, Margaret Cavendish and Katherine Philips. I am also working on literary criticism by early modern women and on the manuscript poetry of Anne Wharton.

I have edited (with Johanna Harris) a collection of essays, The Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women 1558-1680 (Palgrave, 2010) and a series of articles connected to this collection will appear in Literature Compass in 2011. With Sarah C.E.Ross I am editing Women Poets of the English Civil War for Manchester University Press. This will be an accessible teaching edition of poetry by Lucy Hutchinson, Margaret Cavendish, Anne Bradstreet, Hester Pulter and Katherine Philips.

With Ben Burton, I am developing an Electronic Database of Poetic Form. This database will allow searches of early modern poetry according to rhyme scheme, metre, genre and other formal characteristics. We have an article about the project in APPOSITIONS: Studies in Renaissance / Early Modern Literature and Culture. We will be holding a conference connected to the project in Oxford in summer 2012 called Renaissance Poetic Form: New Directions.  Please see http://renaissancepoeticform.wordpress.com/ for further details.

Teaching Areas

I teach Finals Paper 2 (Shakespeare); Paper 4 (English Literature 1509-1642) and Paper 5 (English Literature 1642-1740). I have also taught Mods Paper 1 (Introduction to Literary Studies), Finals Paper 1 (The English Language), Critical Theory and Women’s Writing. I have taken a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education Teaching.

Recent Publications

Elizabeth Scott-Baumann and Johanna Harris eds., The Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women 1558-1680 (Palgrave, 2010)

Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, ‘Lucy Hutchinson, the Bible and Order and Disorder’, and, with Johanna Harris, ‘Introduction’, in The Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women 1558-1680

Elizabeth Scott-Baumann and Ben Burton, 'Encoding Form: Towards a Database of Poetic Form', APPOSITIONS: Studies in Renaissance /Early Modern Literature and Culture, 3 (2010)

Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, ‘“Bake’d in the Oven of Applause”: The blazon and the body in Margaret Cavendish’s Fancies’, Women’s Writing, 15 (2008), 86-106.

Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, ‘Lucy Hutchinson’s Elegies and the seventeenth-century country house poem’ Blackwell Literature Compass 4 (2007), 664–676


Other Information

I have contributed to the Blackwell Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature and write for the Times Literary Supplement. In 2010 I was James M.Osborn Visiting Fellow at the Beinecke Library, Yale University and in 2011 I will be a visiting fellow at Chawton House Library.

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