I am Director of Undergraduate Admissions in the Department of English Literature.

I convene three Part 3 modules, "The Bloody Stage: Revenge and Death in Rensaissance Drama", "Classical and Renaissance Tragedy" and "Utopia and Dystopia". I also convene the Part 1 module "Genre and Context". I give lectures on a range of modules including "Early Modern Theatre Practice", "Renaissance Texts and Cultures", "Shakespeare", and "Shakespeare on Film". I convene the MA modules in "Early Modern Literature" and "The Global Renaissance".

I have supervised a number of PhD students to completion and am happy to talk to anyone who is intersted in undertaking postgraduate research in early modern studies at Reading, and especially within my own area of research.

My research is in early modern literature and performance, and especially the representation of cultural and religious difference.  My main research interest is the portrayal of the Persian empire in English drama in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and I am currently writing a book on this subject.  Other aspects of my research include utopias, travel and travel writing, and religious identity.  My first book was a study of Renaissance utopias from 1516 to the mid seventeenth century, and I have edited a collection of essays on travel and utopia in the early modern period.

More details of my research activity can be found at Chloë Houston Research

You can follow me on Twitter @ChloeReading. You can also follow the activities of the Early Modern Research Centre on Twitter @ReadingEMRC or by liking our Facebook group, "Early Modern Research Centre".