木瓜福利影视

Lieke Stelling studied English literature at the 木瓜福利影视 of Utrecht and 木瓜福利影视 College London and comparative literature at the 木瓜福利影视 of Utrecht. She completed her PhD at the 木瓜福利影视 of Leiden in 2013 before returning to Utrecht in 2015. Her research interests include sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature, Shakespeare, religious conversion, humour and religion, and early modern conceptions of Europe. 

Lieke鈥檚 first monograph, Religious Conversion in Early Modern English Drama (Cambridge 木瓜福利影视 Press, 2019), was runner-up for the Shakespeare's Globe Book Award 2020. Her current book is tentatively titled, 鈥淔aith in Jest: Humour and the Literature of the English Reformation,鈥� and focuses on inclusive and tension-relieving aspects of humour in relation to religious conflict and anxiety. It was awarded a Veni grant by The Dutch Research Council (NWO), in 2017-2021. A related project, on jest books, was supported by a fellowship from the Huntington Library in 2019.

Her current project, "Discovering Europe in the Early Modern Period: How Literary Bestsellers Shaped a Diverse Community, 1517-1713," is supported by an NWO Vidi grant (2022-2027) and examines how works of fiction from across renaissance Europe contributed to conceptions of European identity, in a material as well as a literary sense.