Staff Profile:Dr Mary Morrissey

Name:

Dr Mary Morrissey

Job Title:

Lecturer

Responsibilities:

• Within the department I convene modules in:
  Renaissance Texts and Cultures
• The Witty and the Wanton: John Donne, Ben Jonson and their contemporaries

I also contribute to courses in:

• Renaissance Drama
• English Renaissance Epic
• Shakespeare

Areas of Interest:

My primary research subject is sixteenth and seventeenth-century English sermon literature, particularly from London. I also have a research interest in John Donne, whose work I teach at level 3. I continue to publish research on early modern women's writing, particularly regarding their use of theological arguments

Research groups / Centres:

Publications:

'Scripture, style and persuasion in seventeenth-century English theories of Preaching', Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 53 (2002).

'John Donne as a conventional Paul's Cross preaching', in John Donne's professional lives, ed. David Colclough (Cambridge: Brewer, 2003).

(with Gillian Wright), 'Piety and sociability in early modern women's letters', Women's Writing, 13 (2006).

'Presenting James VI and I to the public: preaching on political anniversaries at Paul's Cross', in James VI and I: Ideas, Authority, and Government, ed. Ralph Houlbrooke (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006).