Professor Alison Shell FBA

Shakespeare and religion; Reformation and Counter-Reformation literature; the vernacular and neo-Latin writing of post-Reformation British Catholics; the literature of Anglicanism; early modern book history and manuscript studies.
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Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2024
Honours
FBA

Current post

University College London Professor of Early Modern Studies, Department of English

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History of later medieval and early modern political thought, focusing on philosophy of rights, law, nature, political community and international law

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Professor Andrew Wood FBA

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Professor Colin Burrow FBA

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