Helen Morag Fellow and Tutor in English Literature
Jesus College
Paulina Kewes is Professor of English Literature and Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She has published widely on early modern literature, history, political thought, and parliamentary culture. She is the author of Authorship and Appropriation: Writing for the Stage in England, 1660–1710 (1998), and editor or co-editor of numerous volumes, including, most recently, Stuart Succession Literature: Moments and Transformations (2019) and Ancient Rome in English Political Culture, c. 1570-1670 (2020). She is the P-I on an interdisciplinary project ‘Recovering Europe's Parliamentary Culture, 1500-1700’ (https://earlymodern.web.ox.ac.uk/recovering-europes-parliamentary-culture-1500-1700-new-approach-representative-institutions). Paulina holds a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship (2021-2024) awarded for Contesting the Royal Succession in Reformation England, Latimer to Shakespeare, a book to be published by Oxford University Press.