James Ee, Trinity

Biographical Information

I read English as an undergraduate at Emmanuel College, where I took a double starred first and the Betha Wolferstan Rylands Prize for the best performance in Part I of the Tripos. I then completed the MPhil in English Studies at Trinity College under a Dunlevie King's Hall Studentship, ranking first in my cohort; for my performance in the Renaissance strand of the MPhil, which included a dissertation on Thomas Browne's medical rhetoric, I received the Jeremy Maule Memorial Award.

My doctoral studies are generously funded by the Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership and Trinity College, and I also hold an honorary Cambridge International Scholarship from the Cambridge Trust.

Research Interests

My research examines the genres and contexts of literary consolation in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Within this broad scope I am concerned with late medieval and early modern religion, moral philosophy and theories of the passions, classical and patristic reception, rhetoric, and translation. Particular writers of interest include Thomas More, Robert Southwell, Mary Sidney, John Donne, George Herbert, Robert Burton, and John Milton.

Having worked on early modern scepticism and artificial languages, I maintain a wider interest in early modern intellectual history, and especially the works of Francis Bacon, Thomas Browne, and the early Royal Society.

Selected Publications

Presentations

'Thomas More, Suicide and the Discomforts of Dialogue', Thanatic Self-Fashioning, Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Boston, 20–22 March 2025 (forthcoming)