Sara Trevisan

After earning her PhD in English Literature at the University of Padua (Italy) in 2010, Sara moved to the UK to take up the Caird Senior Research Fellowship at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. In 2011-12, she was an IAS Santander Postdoc Fellow at the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance (University of Warwick), and she joined Brunel University in September 2012.  

Research Overview

Her research interests include, broadly speaking, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature and theatre. Some of her favourite topics are royal and civic festivals in Europe; Renaissance iconography and rhetoric; the influence of art on literature; geography and landscape in early modern literature and theatre; literature and the sea; and travel narratives.

Sara would welcome research students working in any of these areas.

Teaching Activity

EN1000: Shakespeare and His Contemporaries (module leader)

EN1013: Approaches to Poetry and Prose

EN1015: Thinking About Literature

EN2002: Shakespeare: Text and Performance (module leader)

Selected Publications

‘Poetry and Painting in Early Modern England: The Impact of the Netherlandish Landscape Tradition’, Renaissance Quarterly 69 (2013) (in print)

‘Mildmay Fane’s Masque Raguaillo D'Oceano (1640): Royalism, Puritanism and Sea Voyages’, Renaissance Studies (2011) [published online, DOI: 10.1111/j.1477-4658.2011.00771.x]

‘“The murmuring woods euen shuddred as with feare”: Deforestation in Michael Drayton’s Poly-Olbion’, The Seventeenth Century 26 (2011), 240-63

‘“One Drayton”: Pope, Warburton and the History of a Put-Down’, Notes and Queries 58 (2011), 431-4