Lieke Stelling
Dep. Talen, Literatuur en Communicatie - Engels
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Biography
Lieke Stelling studied English literature at the University of Utrecht and University College London and comparative literature at the University of Utrecht. She completed her PhD at the University of Leiden in 2013 before returning to Utrecht in 2015. She is a research affiliate with the Early Modern Conversions project at McGill (http://earlymodernconversions.com/) and currently working on a monograph on religious conversion in early modern English drama. Her new project, entitled “Faith in Jest: Humour and the Literature of the English Reformation,” has been awarded a Veni grant by The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), and is scheduled to take place over four years, beginning in 2017.
Research Interest
religious conversion
Publications
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Stelling, L.J. (2016). 'For Christian Shame:' Othello's Fall and the Early Modern Conversion Play. Journal of Mediterranean Studies, 25 (1), (pp. 19-31) (12 p.). Special Issue: Othello and his Islands.
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Stelling, L.J. (2017). Review of Jeffrey S. Shoulson: Fictions of Conversion: Jews, Christians, and Cultures of Change in Early Modern England (2013). Religion & Literature, 48 (2).
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Stelling, L.J. (2017). "Recent Studies in Religious Conversion". English Literary Renaissance, 47 (1), (pp. 164-192).
