Katherine Heavey
Lecturer
Department of critical studies
University of Glasgow
United Kingdom
Biography
I have taught in the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow since 2012. Before this, I completed a BA in English Literature at the University of Warwick in 2004, and an MA in 2005. My doctoral work was undertaken at Durham University, and my thesis considered English literary representations of Helen of Troy and Medea, from the Middle Ages to the mid-seventeenth century. From 2010 to 2012 I held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at Newcastle University, researching classical myth in the works of two prolific early modern authors, Robert Greene and Thomas Heywood.
Research Interest
My research interests include the adaptation and reception of classical myth in medieval and early modern English literature; classical translation into English; authorial engagement with the reader in medieval and early modern English literature; literary representation of real historical figures; popular literature in the early modern period; and early modern drama and prose fiction. My first book, The Early Modern Medea: Medea in English Literature 1558-1688, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2015, and has most recently been reviewed by Robin Sowerby in Renaissance Quarterly 16.2 (2016).
Publications
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Heavey, K. (2015) 'Properer Men': myth, manhood and the Trojan war in Greene, Shakespeare and Heywood. Journal of the Northern Renaissance, 7,
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Heavey, K. (2014) Aphra Behn's Oenone to Paris: Ovidian Paraphrase by Women Writers. Translation and Literature, 23(3), pp. 303-320.
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Heavey, K. (2016) An infant of the house of York: Medea and Absyrtus in Shakespeare's First Tetralogy. Comparative Drama, 50(2-3), pp. 233-248.
