Clodagh Murphy is a PhD candidate on the ERC consolidator project FEATHERS at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, exploring the collaborative production of Queen Elizabeth I's English scribal letters.

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Fields of interest

• Early Modern Manuscript Studies
• Handwriting Analysis
• Early Modern Epistolary Studies
• Early Modern Authorship and Attribution Studies
• Computational Stylistics

Research

Clodagh Murphy is a PhD candidate on the ERC consolidator project FEATHERS at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. Her research explores the collaborative production of the English scribal letters of Queen Elizabeth I, investigating the key figures involved, the shared contexts of their work, and their influence on the queen’s epistolary authorship. Her research interests combine early modern authorship studies, manuscript studies, and computational stylistics.

Curriculum Vitae

2019-2020 Research Assistant at UCL's Centre for Editing Lives and Letters on the 'Book Owners Online' project (https:⁠/⁠/bookowners.online/Main_Page).

2018-2019 Early Modern English Literature: Text and Transmission (MA), King's College London

2015-2018 English Literature (BA), University of Sheffield

Teaching Activities

Academic year 2021-2022
Literature 2: English Literature, ca. 1550-1700 (BA year 1, semester 2)

Circulating Sex: Authorship & Textual Production in Early Modern England (MA, semester 1)

Key publications

'The Melborne Manuscript', Lost Plays Database (with Daniel Starza Smith), 2019 https://lostplays.folger.edu/Play_about_the_Duke_of_Florence_(BL_Add_MS_88878)

Publications