Alison Shell
Alison Shell is a British scholar and literary critic. She is a professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at University College London. Most of her scholarly work explores the relationship between Christianity and literature in Britain from the Reformation to the 21st century.
Education
[edit]Shell was educated at North London Collegiate School and St Hilda’s College, Oxford, where she obtained a B.A./M.A. and D.Phil.[1]
Career
[edit]Shell served as a Rare Books Curator at the Royal Institute of British Architects before becoming a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow at University College London (UCL) from 1994 to 1997. Her first permanent academic position was at the University of Durham, where she worked from 1997 to 2010 before returning to UCL.[1]
Since 2010, Shell has been a series editor for the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. Alongside Thomas S. Freeman and Ann Hutchison, she founded the series ‘Catholic and Recusant Texts of the Late Medieval and Early Modern Periods.’ She also serves on the editorial boards for the journals British Catholic History[2] and Reformation. She reviews for the Times Literary Supplement,[3] and in 2024 she preached the annual Shakespeare Sermon at Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Fellowships
[edit]Shell is a fellow of the British Academy,[4] the English Association,[5] and the Society of Antiquaries.[6] She has held visiting fellowships at the Newberry Library in Chicago, the Beinecke Library at Yale, and the Lewis Walpole Library at Yale.[7]
Bibliography (selected)
[edit]- Shakespeare and Religion (London: Arden Shakespeare, Critical Companions, 2010; paperback 2015).[8][9][10]
- Oral Culture and Catholicism in Early Modern England (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007, paperback, 2009).[11][12][13][14]
- Catholicism, Controversy and the English Literary Imagination, 1558-1660 (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999, paperback 2006).[15][16]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Professor Alison Shell". UCL English. 30 April 2018.
- ^ Editorial Board
- ^ https://www.the-tls.co.uk/authors/alison-shell
- ^ "Professor Alison Shell FBA". The British Academy.
- ^ Fellows
- ^ Directory of Current Fellows
- ^ "Fellowship Awards from Previous Years | Lewis Walpole Library". walpole.library.yale.edu.
- ^ Mccoy, Richard C. (2016). "Review of Shakespeare and Religion, ShellAlison; Shakespeare's Religious Language: A Dictionary, HasselR. Chris". Renaissance Quarterly. 69 (1): 402–405. ISSN 0034-4338.
- ^ Schrock, Chad (22 September 2015). "Shakespeare and Religion (The Arden Critical Companions) . By Alison Shell". Literature and Theology: frv033. doi:10.1093/litthe/frv033.
- ^ Milward, Peter (November 2013). "Shakespeare and Religion. By AlisonShell. Pp. 308, The Arden Critical Companions, Arden Shakespeare, Methuen Drama, London, 2010, £55.00". The Heythrop Journal. 54 (6): 1051–1052. doi:10.1111/heyj.12043_23. ISSN 0018-1196.
- ^ "Alison Shell, Oral Culture and Catholicism in Early Modern England, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007". History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland. 27 August 2018.
- ^ Kuchar, Gary (April 2009). "Alison Shell. Oral Culture and Catholicism in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. 244. $95.00 (cloth)". Journal of British Studies. 48 (2): 484–486. doi:10.1086/598875. ISSN 1545-6986.
- ^ Comerford, Kathleen M. (March 2011). "Oral Culture and Catholicism in Early Modern England. By Alison Shell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xi + 244 pp. 36.99 paper". Church History. 80 (1): 177–179. doi:10.1017/S0009640710001782. ISSN 1755-2613.
- ^ Macek, Ellen A. (1 March 2010). "Oral Culture and Catholicism in Early Modern England". The Sixteenth Century Journal. 41 (1): 193–194. doi:10.1086/SCJ27867681.
- ^ Gardiner, Anne Barbeau (July 2000). "Catholicism, Controversy and the English Literary Imagination, 1558–1660 (review)". The Catholic Historical Review. 86 (3): 510–512. doi:10.1353/cat.2000.0017. ISSN 1534-0708.
- ^ "Book Review. Catholicism, Controversy and the English Literary Imagination 1558-1660 Alison Shell". Forum for Modern Language Studies. 37 (3): 354–354. 1 July 2001. doi:10.1093/fmls/37.3.354-a.