Centre for Scottish & Celtic Studies

PhD Student in Scottish Literature

The award I received through the Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies Seedcorn Funding allowed me to attend the Northern Early Modern Network’s annual conference in Newcastle, January 2022. My presentation was titled ‘Protestant Print Politics and Catholic Conversions in Mary Queen of Scots’ Casket Sonnets’. Based on my MPhil research, the paper examined the Protestant sponsored printing of the Casket Sonnets and contemporaneous reformed polemic against Catholics to argue that the sonnets can fruitfully be read through a Catholic devotional lens, rather than solely the illicit secular love reading their printing ascribed them.

This marked my first opportunity to present my research at an in-person conference and provided a valuable experience to gain feedback from other academics. It also allowed me the opportunity to connect with PGRs and ECRs working in early modern studies across a range of disciplines, including Literature, History, Art History and Theology among others.

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First published: 27 January 2022