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Dr Laura Seymour

Positions held:

Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication

Overview

Overview

Biography

Lecturer in Seventeenth-Century Literature. My research focuses on performance, disability, and cognitive theory. My two current research projects examine refusals to behave according to social norms in early modern English and Spanish literature, and representations of neurodiversity in early modern Scottish and English texts.
I studied at a state grammar school, Cambridge, and Birkbeck, and have also lectured at Bath Spa and Royal Holloway. I am a fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
I teach on the BA English and MA Renaissance Studies. My monograph, Refusing to Behave in Early Modern Literature is forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press.
Publications
Publications
Article
- Seymour, Laura (2020) The feasting table as a gateway to hell on the early modern stage and page. Renaissance Studies 34 (3), pp. 392-411. ISSN 0269-1213.
- Seymour, Laura (2018) Loving gardens, loving the gardener? ‘Solitude’ in Andrew Marvell’s ‘The Garden’. Marvell Studies 3 (2), pp. 2. ISSN 2399-7435.
Book Section
- Seymour, Laura (2016) 'Her Silence Flouts Me': stillness in The Taming of the Shrew. In: Garratt, P. (ed.) The Cognitive Humanities. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 114. ISBN 9781137593283.