Dr Syrithe Pugh

Dr Syrithe Pugh
Dr Syrithe Pugh
Dr Syrithe Pugh

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Email Address
s.m.pugh@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 272623
Office Address

Old Brewery F06

School/Department
School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture

Biography

 

Before coming to Aberdeen, I studied at Oxford and Princeton and taught at Leeds. My research focusses on the Renaissance reception of classical literature, and particularly how C16th and C17th English poets used classical imitation and allusion to reflect on contemporary events and political issues.

 

I have published two monographs exploring these questions in relation to the Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser, the first focussing on his relation to the irreverent love poet and political exile Ovid, and the second (which received the Isabel MacCaffrey Award) on his nuanced and revisionary engagement with the Augustan laureate Virgil—both revealing a radically independent sense of poetry's social role and relation to power. A third monograph explores the use of classical imitation for political ends by royalist poets in the period leading up to the English Civil War. I have also edited interdisciplinary volumes on classical intertextuality and on euhemerism, and published articles on a wide range of Renaissance poets, and several chapters in handbooks from Oxford, Cambridge and Blackwells.

 

At Aberdeen, I am co-director of the Herbert Grierson Research Centre, which has hosted several international conferences on classical reception in recent years. Beyond the University, I am a member of the Councils of the Society for Renaissance Studies and the UK Classical Association, and Chair of the Classical Association of Scotland’s Aberdeen and North of Scotland Centre. I am a contributing editor for the online journal Spenser Review, and a member of the editorial board of Spenser Studies.

 

I welcome enquiries from students interested in postgraduate research on Renaissance poetry, especially anyone interested in focussing on poetry and politics, or classical imitation and intertextuality.

 

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Research

Research Overview

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Research Areas

Research Specialisms

  • English Literature 1200 -1700
  • Classical Reception

Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.

Publications

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  • Review of 'Renaissance Postscripts: Responding to Ovid's Heroides in Sixteenth‐Century France' by Paul White

    Pugh, S.
    Renaissance Studies, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 725-727
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
  • Supping with Ghosts: Imitation and Immortality in Herrick

    Pugh, S.
    ‘Lords of Wine and Oile’: Community and Conviviality in the Poetry of Robert Herrick. Connolly, R., Cain, T. (eds.). Oxford University Press, 26 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • Spenser and Classical Literature

    Pugh, S.
    Oxford Handbook of Edmund Spenser. McCabe, R. A. (ed.). Oxford University Press, pp. 503-519, 17 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • Herrick, Fanshawe and the Politics of Intertextuality: Classical Literature and Seventeenth-Century Royalism

    Pugh, S.
    Ashgate, Farnham. 196 pages
    Books and Reports: Books
  • Ovidian Reflections in Gascoigne's Steel Glass

    Pugh, S.
    The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Literature, 1485-1603. Pincombe, M., Shrank, C. (eds.). Oxford University Press, pp. 571-586, 16 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • Fanshawe's Critique of Caroline Pastoral: Allusion and Ambiguity in the 'Ode on the Proclamation'

    Pugh, S.
    Review of English Studies, vol. 59, no. 240, pp. 379-391
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Sidney, Spenser and Political Petrarchism

    Pugh, S.
    Petrarch in Britain: Interpreters, Imitators and Translators over 700 Years. McLaughlin, M. L. (ed.). Oxford University Press, pp. 243-257, 15 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • Sean Keilen, Vulgar Eloquence: On the Renaissance Invention of English Literature

    Pugh, S.
    Bryn Mawr Classical Review
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
  • "Cleanly-Wantonnesse" and Puritan Legislation: the Politics of Herrick’s Amatory Ovidianism.

    Pugh, S.
    The Seventeenth Century, vol. 21, pp. 249-269
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Acrasia and Bondage: Guyon’s Perversion of the Ovidian Erotic in Book II of The Faerie Queene

    Pugh, S.
    Edmund Spenser: New and Renewed Directions. Lethbridge, J. (ed.). Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, pp. 153-194, 41 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
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