For queries about the conference and Call for Papers, please contact Dr Amy Lidster at clioreframed@gmail.com
Lead Conference Organizer
Dr Amy Lidster (@amy_lidster) is a Lecturer and Career Development Fellow in English at the University of Oxford. She specializes in early modern literature, book history, and historical and wartime cultures. Her research aims to recover lost voices and histories from the archives, uncovering new evidence about the individuals who have created and used early modern literature across the longue durée that opens up new ways of understanding texts and their contexts. Amy is the author of several books, including Publishing the History Play in the Time of Shakespeare: Stationers Shaping a Genre (CUP 2022; pbk 2024) that reveals new evidence about the construction of ‘history’ through the publication process and challenges a critical tendency to prioritize Shakespeare’s English histories to the exclusion of other dramatists and global histories. Another strand of Amy’s research explores the history of Shakespeare’s wartime use between the sixteenth and twenty-first centuries, which was the focus of a Leverhulme-funded project that led to a monograph, Wartime Shakespeare: Performing Narratives of Conflict (CUP 2023), edited collection with Sonia Massai, Shakespeare at War: A Material History, and exhibition at the National Army Museum.
For more details, see Amy’s Oxford profile and website.