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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  • Jonson and the Cavalier Poets

    Pugh, S.
    A Companion to Renaissance Poetry. Bates, C. (ed.). Blackwell, pp. 325-338, 14 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • Orpheus and Eurydice in the Middle Books of The Faerie Queene

    Pugh, S.
    Spenser Studies, vol. 31-32, pp. 1-41
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • 'Spenser and Ovid'

    Pugh, S.
    Edmund Spenser in Context. Escobedo, A. (ed.). Cambridge University Press
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • Spenser and Virgil: The Pastoral Poems

    Pugh, S.
    Manchester University Press, Manchester. 350 pages
    Books and Reports: Books
  • Lindsay Ann Reid, Ovidian Bibliofictions and the Tudor Book: Metamorphosing Classical Heroines in Late Medieval and Renaissance England

    Pugh, S.
    Spenser Review, vol. 44, no. 3, 63
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
  • Reinventing the Wheel: Spenser's Virgilian Career

    Pugh, S.
    Spenser in the Moment. Hecht, P., Lethbridge, J. B. (eds.). Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • Rebecca Helfer, Spenser’s Ruins and the Art of Recollection

    Pugh, S.
    Review of English Studies, vol. 64, no. 267, pp. 887
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
  • Alpers, What Is Pastoral?

    Pugh, S.
    Spenser Review, vol. 43, no. 2
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
  • Marlowe and Classical Literature

    Pugh, S.
    Christopher Marlowe in Context. Bartels, E. C., Smith, E. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, pp. 80-89, 10 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • Review of Frances Cruickshank, 'Verse and Poetics in George Herbert and John Donne' and Margaret Fetzer, 'John Donne’s Performances: Sermons, Poems, Letters and Devotions'

    Pugh, S.
    Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, vol. 60, no. 4, pp. 403-405
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
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