Dr Hester Lees-Jeffries, St Catharine's

<hmml2@cam.ac.uk>

Biographical Information:

I completed my BA and MA (Hons.) at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, before coming to Cambridge as a Commonwealth Scholar to begin my PhD in 1999. From 2003-6 I was a Research Fellow at Magdalene College, and since 2006 I have been a Fellow and College Lecturer at St Catharine's College, where I direct studies for Part I.

Research Interests:

I work on Shakespeare and early modern literature in general, with a particular interest in visual and material culture, and in interdisciplinary approaches. I am currently finishing Shakespeare and Memory for the Oxford Shakespeare Topics series, and beginning a new project with the working title ‘Textile Shakespeare’.

Areas of Graduate Supervision:

Shakespeare and early modern literature, especially drama; visual and material culture, especially gardens and textiles.

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Selected Publications

• Monograph
  • England’s Helicon: fountains in early modern literature and culture (Oxford, 2007)
• Journal Articles and Chapters in Books
  • ‘No country for old men? Ciceronian friendship and old age in Shakespeare’s second tetralogy and beyond’, Review of English Studies (forthcoming)
  • ‘Pictures, places and spaces: Sidney, Wroth, Wilton House and the Songe de Poliphile’, in Renaissance Paratexts, ed. Helen Smith, Louise Wilson (Cambridge, 2010), 185-203
  • ‘Lear and Shakespeare as Godfathers’, Notes and Queries 57 (September 2010)
  • ‘Literary gardens from More to Marvell’ in A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture, ed. Michael Hattaway (Oxford, 2010), 379-95
  • ‘A learned dialogue of BERNARD PALESSY, Concerning waters and fountaines, both naturall and artificiall: Translated Owt of French into English, by Thomas Watson’, Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes 30 (2010), 1-56
  • ‘Thomas Lodge’s translation of Seneca: a possible Shakespearean echo’, Notes and Queries 56 (March 2009), 81-4
  • ‘A subtle point: sleeves, tents, and "Ariachne’s broken woof" (again)’, Shakespeare Survey 62 (2009), 92-103
  • ‘Location as metaphor: Veritas temporis filia (1559) and its afterlife’. In The Progresses, Pageants and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I, ed. Jayne Archer, Elizabeth Goldring, Sarah Knight (Oxford, 2007), 65-85
  • ‘Sacred and profane love: four fountains in the Hypnerotomachia (1499) and the Roman de la Rose’. Word & Image 22.1 (2006), 1-13
  • ‘Sidney’s Zelmane and the Songe de Poliphile’. Sidney Journal 21 (2003), 67-75
  • ‘From the fountain to the well: Redcrosse learns to read’. Studies in Philology 100 (2003), 135-176
  • ‘A new allusion by Jonson to Spenser and Essex?’ Notes and Queries 50 (March 2003), 63-65