
Dr Emily Derbyshire
Ba Hons (Oxon), Dr. (Bristol)
Expertise
I am a lecturer and the Director of Teaching on the Liberal Arts programme at the University of Bristol.
Current positions
Senior Lecturer
Department of English
Contact
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Research interests
I research early modern literature and culture, in particular geographic and cartographic representation in the dramatic works of Ben Jonson. I am interested in the ways in which dramatic characters interact with geographic spaces and networks, and what this reveals about Renaissance attitudes towards geography, creativity, playfulness and performance. Alongside this, I am currently researching descriptions of physical motion within seventeenth-century lunar travel narratives. Uniting my research is an interest in the ways in which early modern writers understand and reflect theories of spatial movement within their constructions of character.
Publications
Recent publications
01/10/2018Review of Shakespeare's Macbeth (directed by Adele Thomas for Tobacco Factory Theatres) at the Tobacco Factory, Bristol, 26 February 2018
Shakespeare
Review of Shakespeare’s Othello (directed by Richard Twyman for Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory and Tobacco Factory Theatres) at the Tobacco Factory, Raleigh Road, Bristol, 21 February 2017; and Othello (directed by Ellen McDougall for Shakespeare’s Globe) at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, New Globe Walk, London, 8 April 2017
Shakespeare
Review of King Lear (directed by Tom Morris for the Bristol Old Vic/ Bristol Old Vic Theatre School) at Bristol Old Vic, King Street, Bristol, 28 June 2016
Shakespeare