Dr Felicity Brown

I have spent the last three years as a Stipendiary Lecturer in early modern English, teaching at Balliol, Christ Church, St John’s, Somerville, and St Peter’s Colleges. As well as teaching at LMH, I am now a Retained Lecturer at Wadham College and an Early Career Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies (London). I have previously held fellowships at the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford) and the Huntington Library (California). In January 2026, I will begin a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship.

My research interests are in sixteenth and seventeenth century English literature, particularly in the reception of classical and medieval texts. My work investigates how and why fantasy makes history, and vice versa. I am currently finishing two books: the first is about adaptations of the Arthurian legend in early modern culture and the second miniature Shakespearean books. Articles emerging from this research have been awarded the Early Career Derek Brewer Essay Prize and The Society for Theatre Research’s Anthony Denning Award, respectively. I am also beginning a new project on the work of John Dryden. 

At LMH I teach FHS Paper 1 ‘Shakespeare’ and Paper 3 ‘Literature in English, 1550-1660’.

• ‘The Bard Bounded: Miniature Shakespearean Book Boxes’, Inscription – the Journal of Material Text – Theory, Practice, History, Issue 5 ‘Containers’ (2025), 13–26.
• ‘George Gascoigne’s Proliferative Poetics’, in Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court, ed. Emma Rhatigan and Jackie Watson (Palgrave, 2025), 203–218.
• ‘Playing Arthur: Making the Elizabethan Mariner’, Arthurian Literature (2024), 1–19.
• ‘A Chivalric Show of Civic Virtue: The Society of Prince Arthur’s Archers’, The Review of English Studies, 73 (2022), 43–58.
• ‘Sourcing Misfortunes: Translation and Tragedy at Gray’s Inn’, Early Theatre, 24.2 (2021), 157–70.