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Dr Alison Scott is a lecturer in English Literature with the School of English, Media Studies & Art History. Alison Scott moved to The University of Queensland from Macquarie University in 2008, where she held an Australia Council Postdoctoral Fellowship (2005-08) which allowed her to set up a major project exploring languages of luxury in early modern English culture, which has resulted in a book forthcoming with Ashgate Press (UK).
Alison’s expertise is chiefly in early modern literature – poetry, prose, drama and masques, both canonical and non-canonical texts. She has particular interests in the works of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, and in the politics surrounding the production of literature in the period. Recent work has focused more explicitly on early modern visual culture and, particularly, on the ways in which early modern literature and art adapt and reformulate classical paradigms of virtue and vice, especially the vice of luxury.
Her first book 'Selfish Gifts: The Politics of Exchange and English Courtly Literature, 1580-1628' was published by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press in 2006; that was followed by a volume of essays on 'Ben Jonson and the Politics of Genre' co-edited with A. D. Cousins which was published by Cambridge University Press in 2009. Current research projects include a new exploration of Jonson’s patronage networks, commissioned for as part of a major international collaboration to produce a new Oxford Handbook on Jonson; and the development of a new project in conjunction with Dr Andrea Bubenik (Art History, EMSAH) which aims to consider the interplay between Ovidian art and literature in early modern Europe.
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Humanities: Visual Arts, Humanities: Renaissance Studies, Humanities: Literary History, Humanities: Language and/or Literature, Drama, Humanities: Language and/or Literature, Classical/Ancient, Humanities: Drama, Humanities: Intellectual History, Humanities: Cultural History, Humanities: Language and/or Literature, Renaissance |
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