English and Drama

                                 
         Professor Elaine Hobby

         Tel: +44 01509 222950
          
         Role: Head of Department

         Email: E.A.Hobby@lboro.ac.uk

         Room NN.0.10, Martin Hall Building, East Park

         Publications                 


I have been Head of Department since August 2006, but continue to be active both as a researcher and as a teacher. I work on the full range of writings published by British women in the seventeenth century, including plays, political pamphlets, medical works, poetry, autobiography, prose fiction, and almanacs. I have a particular delight in textual editing, and my publications include being co-editor of Her Own Life: Autobiographical Writings by Seventeenth-Century Englishwomen (1989), and editing Jane Sharp, The Midwives Book (1999). Having become fascinated by early medical writings, I am working on a history of the midwifery manual (1540-1720), and have recently completed a modern-spelling edition of The Birth of Mankind. I am a member of the editorial board of Quaker Studies.

I am a keen teacher, contributing to first-year teaching in 'Critical Studies' and 'Introduction to Poetry', co-ordinating the second-year core module 'British Drama 1576-1737', and offering an option on 'Aphra Behn and her Contemporaries'. I also convene and teach early-modern modules on the MA in English.

My current PhD students are working on early-modern representations of menstruation, on early Baptist conversion narratives, and on early-modern depictions and meanings of cleft palate. I am happy to consider proposals in any area of early-modern studies.





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