Dr Georgina Wilson

Position

Stipendary Lecturer in English

Qualifications

BA (Oxford), MA (York), DPhil (Oxford)

Academic positions

Stipendary Lecturer in English, Brasenose College

Academic background and previous positions

An early modern literary scholar by training, Georgina is interested in the relationship between literary criticism and book-making from the late medieval period to the present day.

She has previously held a 3yr Early Career Research Fellowship at Fitwilliam College, Cambridge, and another Stipendiary Lectureship at Jesus College, Cambridge. Now, in addition to her Brasenose role, she the Postdoctoral Research Associate on the AHRC-funded Print Matters project at Thin Ice Press/University of York, and Co-ordinator of Print Exchanges.

Undergraduate teaching areas

Paper 3 (Literature 1550-1660), Paper 4 (Literature 1660-1760), Shakespeare.

Graduate teaching areas

Mst B Course: Bibliography, Theories of Text, History of the Book, Manuscript Studies.

Selected publications

Her monograph Paper and the Making of Early Modern Literature is forthcoming in summer 2025 with the Material Texts series at Penn, and she has edited, with Zachary Lesser, a special issue of Journal of Early Modern Studies on 'The Politics of Book History: Then and Now'. Her work spans archival, creative, and theoretical approaches, and she is now editing with Orietta da Rold and Vona Groarke a critical-creative issue of Critical Quarterly entitled 'Paper and Poetry: Interventions in Theory and Practice' which brings together literary scholars with curators, paper artists, and creative writers.

Email

georgina.wilson@bnc.ox.ac.uk