MS LESLIE DRURY
BA, MLitt
Doctoral Candidate, English
Personal Details
| E-mail: | r01lmd9@abdn.ac.uk |
| Address: | l.drury@abdn.ac.uk c/o School of Language and Literature Office Taylor Building University of Aberdeen Old Aberdeen AB24 3UB |
Research Grants
Scottish Overseas Research Student Awards Scheme (SORSAS)- September 2010
Teaching Responsibilities
Lecturer: EL2011 Encounters with Shakespeare, University of Aberdeen, November 2012. Two one-hour lectures on The Winter's Tale.
Teaching Assistant: EL2011 Encounters with Shakespeare, University of Aberdeen, October 2012-January 2013
Teaching Assistant: EL2512 The Tragedy of Knowledge, University of Aberdeen, January 2012-May 2012
Teaching Assistant: EL2011 Encounters with Shakespeare, University of Aberdeen, October 2011-January 2012
Teaching Assistant: EL2006 Reading Shakespeare, University of Aberdeen, October 2010-January 2011
Teaching Assistant: English Literature Summer School, Centre for Lifelong Learning, University of Aberdeen, June 2010-August 2010
External Responsibilities
Postgraduate Representative, School of Language and Literature, September 2011-September 2012
Convener, Centre for Early Modern Studies Postgraduate Symposium, 'Tradition and Cultural Memory: Representations, Reflections, and the Relationship to the Past in Early Modern Europe', March 2012
Conference Papers
Gossips and Green Months: Female Social Networks, Childbearing, and Masculine Anxieties of the Family in Early Modern England
- The University of Aberdeen and The University of St Andrews Joint Annual Postgraduate History Conference, May 2012
'To see the statue of our queen': Maternal Iconography and Women's Authority in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale
- University of Aberdeen, School of Language & Literature Postgraduate Symposium, May 2012
Pastimes and Times Past: Old Wives' Tales as Retrospective Genre in Early Modern England
- University of Aberdeen, Centre for Early Modern Studies Postgraduate Symposium, 'Tradition and Cultural Memory: Representations, Reflections, and the Relationship to the Past in Early Modern Europe', March 2012
Old Wives' Tales: Masculine Anxiety and the Literary Marketing of Female Oral Culture
- Northumbria University, Medieval and Early Modern Research Group Conference, 'Gossip, gospel, and governance: Orality in Europe 1400-1700', July 2011
'They'll drink their ale, and tell a tale': Alewives and Authorship in Early Modern England
- University of Dundee, 'High and Low' 9th Annual English Postgraduate Conference, June 2011
'A sad tale's best for winter': The Winter's Tale, Female Orality, and Masculine Anxieties of the Family
- Cardiff University, 'Myths, Legends and Folklore' conference, May 2011
The Giant Mother Bunch: Alewives and the Social Topography of London in Early Modern English Literature
- University of Aberdeen, Centre for Early Modern Studies symposium, Liminal Communities: Living at the Margins in Early Modern Europe, May 2011
'Tell a tale, let a fart': Alewives and Jesting Authorship in Early Modern London
- University of Aberdeen, School of Language & Literature Postgraduate Symposium, April 2011
Amusing Anxieties: Old Wives' Tales and Dramatic Parodies of Chivalric Romances as Social Critique
- University of Reading Early Modern Conference: 'Controversy, Protest, Ridicule, Laughter, 1500-1750', July 2010
'Tale as Old as Time': Disney Princesses and the Evolution of the Fairytale Tradition
- University of Aberdeen, co-presented paper at Moving Forward Postgraduate Conference, July 2009
Gascoigne's The Steele Glas and The Complaynt of Philomene: Authorial Manipulation of Gender in Female Complaint Poetry
- University of Aberdeen, School of Language & Literature Postgraduate Symposium, April 2009
Publication
‘Neil Gaiman: The Teller of Tales and the Fairy Tale Tradition’
- Chapter for collection: The Mythological Dimensions of Neil Gaiman, Kitsune Books, March 2012