Key details
Dr Jennifer Young
Senior Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature
Dr Jennifer Young joined the University of Greenwich in 2017, having previously taught at the University of Leeds, Anglia Ruskin University, and King's College London. She is the program leader for MA English: Literary London and teaches on the modules: Research Skills for Literary Study, Imagining the Metropolis and the new module Spaces of London: Early Modern to the Eighteenth Century. Dr Young’s undergraduate teaching covers all three years of the degree especially whenever there is Shakespeare involved.
She teaches first year students on the Canon: a Short History of Western Literature, second year students on the ‘Shakespeare: Then and Now’ module and is module leader for students doing dissertation projects in their third year and supervises dissertations on Shakespeare, early modern literature, textual criticism and book history. Dr Young enjoys sharing her research interests in Shakespeare, early modern London and the book trade with her undergraduate and postgraduate students through encounters with early modern texts in class and at archives and libraries around the City.
Responsibilities within the university
- Programme Leader MA English: Literary London
- Senior Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature
- Dr Young is the program leader for MA English: Literary London and teaches on the modules: Research Skills for Literary Study, Imagining the Metropolis and the new module Spaces of London: Early Modern to the Eighteenth Century. Dr Young’s undergraduate teaching covers all three years of the degree especially whenever there is Shakespeare involved. She teaches first year students on the Canon: a Short History of Western Literature, second year students on the ‘Shakespeare: Then and Now’ module and is module leader for students doing dissertation projects in their third year and supervises dissertations on Shakespeare, early modern literature, textual criticism and book history.
Recognition
FHEA
2023 Completed AdvanceHE’s Aurora Leadership Program
Research / Scholarly interests
Her main research interest is the print history of Shakespeare with particular focus on the contributions and interactions of printers and publishers in early modern London. She studies the earliest editions of Shakespeare's plays printed in 16th and 17thcentury London and the practices that created them – including historical printing practices that give her a chance to set type and pull pages on historical printing presses. Her interest in London's connections to Shakespeare's work inspired her contributions to the co-authored Shakespeare in London (with Hannah Crawforth and Sarah Dustagheer).
She is currently working on a monograph entitled The Stationer and the Shakespearean Playtext: Studies in Co-operative Publication. This book combines literary, textual, and bibliographical analysis to investigate interactions between Shakespeare and the stationers who produced the earliest editions of his work.
Dr Young's research is particularly interested in the lives and vocational communities of early modern stationers and is planning a new project on Stationer Networks in 16th and 17th century London.Her larger interest in all things Shakespeare (especially fictional biographies of Shakespeare) led to her being a founding member of the Historical Fictions Research Network (https://historicalfictionsresearch.org). She is currently programme manager for their yearly conference.
Recent publications
Article
Young, Jennifer and , (2021), Shakespeare for the "Triers": Richard Hawkins and Q2 Othello at the Serjeants' Inn. University of Pennsylvania Press (Penn Press). In: , , , . University of Pennsylvania Press (Penn Press), Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, 21 (1) . pp. 94-119 ISSN: 1531-0485 (Print), 1553-3786 (Online) (doi: https://doi.org/10.1353/jem.2021.0003).
Young, Jennifer , Smith, Peter J, Parsons, Elinor, Tarantino, Elisabetta , Stelzer, Emanuel , Bell, Shirley , Griffiths, Christian , Wilkinson, Kate , O'brien, Sheilagh Ilona , Powell, Louise (2018), VII Shakespeare. Oxford University Press. In: , , , . Oxford University Press, Year's Work in English Studies, 97 (1) . pp. 353-464 ISSN: 0084-4144 (Print), 1471-6801 (Online) (doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/ywes/may005).
Book section
Young, Jennifer and , (2022), Chapter 1. Women "think round it"! Writing and Publication in Emilia. Routledge. In: , , In: Laura Kressly, Aida Patient, Kimberly A. Williams (eds.), Notelets of Filth: A Companion Reader to Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's Emilia. Routledge, London; Abingdon and New York (1st) . pp. 1-12 . ISBN: 9781003033387; 9780367498290; 9780367470982 (doi: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003033387) NB Item availability restricted.
Young, Jennifer and , (2021), ‘While memory holds a seat in this distracted globe’: a look back at the Arden Shakespeare Third Series (1995–2020). Cambridge University Press. In: , , In: Emma Smith (ed.), Shakespeare Survey 74: Shakespeare and Education. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge , 74 (74) (1st) . pp. 355-371 . ISBN: 9781009036795 (doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009036795.024).
Conference item
Young, Jennifer and , (2019), Small Latin, less Greek (but just enough poetry): early modern stationers and the grammar school education. In: The People of Print: printers, stationers, and booksellers 1500-1830, 12 - 14 Sep 2019, University of Sheffield , . , . pp. 1-10 (doi: ) NB Item availability restricted.
Young, Jennifer and , (2019), Q2 Othello at the Serjeants' Inn. In: The Early Modern Inns of Court and the Circulation of Texts, 14-15 Jun 2019, King's College London, London , . , (doi: ) NB Item availability restricted.
Young, Jennifer and , (2018), Why stationers don't collaborate. In: International Shakespeare Conference, 22 - 27 Jul 2018, Shakespeare Institute, Stratford Upon Avon , . , (doi: ) NB Item availability restricted.
Young, Jennifer and , (2018), A stationer’s network in the archives: Thomas Cotes stationer & parish clerk. In: Early Archives Symposium, 11 - 12 Jun 2018, Queen Mary, University of London , . , (doi: ) NB Item availability restricted.