Kirsty Rolfe
University Lecturer
- Name
- Dr. K. Rolfe Ph.D.
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 5372
- k.rolfe@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-8309-0202
Kirsty Rolfe is a university lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. Her research focuses on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature, in particular news, political writing, and gender. She has published articles on plague and on military news reports, and is currently working on a book about news, providence, and emotion in the Thirty Years’ War. She is also interested in scholarly editing, and is currently editing Thomas Nashe’s 'The Anatomie of Absurditie' (1589) for Oxford University Press
University Lecturer
- Faculty of Humanities
- Centre for the Arts in Society
- Moderne Engelstalige letterkunde
- Rolfe K. (2022), Review of: Chovanec K. (2020), Pan-Protestant heroism in early modern Europe. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan 52(1).
- Rolfe K. (2022), Literature and News in the Renaissance. In: Lynch D.S. & Hadfield A. (Eds.), Oxford research encyclopedia of literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Rolfe K. (2021), St Paul’s and London News Culture, 1618–1632. In: Altman S. & Buckner J. (Eds.), Old St. Paul's and Culture. Cham: Palgrave MacMillan. 319-340.
- Rolfe K. (2021), Beyond the Polis: Transforming Sovereignty: News and Popular Politics. In: Cox V. & Paul J. (Eds.), A Cultural History of Democracy in the Renaissance no. 3. London: Bloomsbury Academic. 201–216.
- Rolfe K. (2019), Fatal and memorable: plague, providence and war in English texts, 1625-6, Seventeenth Century 35(3): 293-314.
- Rolfe K. (2019), Review of: Neelakanta V. (2019), Retelling the Siege of Jerusalem in Early Modern England. Newark: University of Delaware Press. Renaissance Studies 35(3): 547-549.
- Rolfe K. (2017), Probable Pasts and Possible Futures: Contemporaneity and the consumption of news in the 1620s, Media History 23(2): 159-176.
- Rolfe K. (2016), ‘It is no time now to enquire of forraine occurrents’: plague, war, and rumour in the letters of Joseph Mead, 1625. In: Raymond J. & Moxham N. (Eds.), News networks in early modern Europe. Leiden: Brill. 563-582.