Dr Elizabeth Williamson

Elizabeth Williamson is a Senior Research Fellow in Digital Humanities. Her research sits at the intersection between Renaissance literature, historical enquiry, archival studies and the digital humanities. Her interests include early modern archives and epistolary culture, especially in a diplomatic and governmental context; the practical and theoretical concerns of the Digital Humanities; and textual scholarship and digital publication. Before joining Exeter she co-edited documentary editions of thirty plays by authors other than Shakespeare for A Digital Anthology of Early Modern English Drama at the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Her first book, Elizabethan Diplomacy and Epistolary Culture, delves into letter-writing, information gathering, and intelligencing in Elizabethan politics, across the early modern and digital archive.

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I am keen to hear from any students who wish to discuss research proposals within my field of expertise. I am especially interested to work with students wishing to work between early modern studies and the digital humanities, particularly early modern and digital archives, manuscript studies and text technologies, and textual scholarship and digital publication. I would be happy to hear from those interested in early modern diplomacy and epistolary culture.