PhD Supervision
I am happy to supervise work on any aspect of early modern literature: please email me for a conversation.
Exactly the right amount of supervision
(Ovid, Heroides, Brescia, 1542, col. 1; (c) Paul Botley 2021)
Past and present research students
Valeria Cesaraccio (begun 2023), 'Education in Sixteenth-century Italy between Latin and Italian: Teachers, Students and Methods' (co-supervision).
Clive Letchford (begun 2022), 鈥楻enaissance Schoolmasters: Pedagogy and Innovation in the Shadow of Tradition in England, 1540-1640鈥� (co-supervision).
Daria Akhapkina (begun 2022), 鈥�Sermons joyeux: Ecclesiastical parody in Latin and French, 1200-1600鈥� (co-supervision).
Mathilde Alain (completed 2025), 鈥楾he Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia in the Travel Diary of Francisco 脕lvarez (1520-1526)鈥� (co-supervision).
Iv谩n Parga Ornelas (completed 2023), 鈥楩rom Vergil to David: Maffeo Vegio鈥檚 鈥淟iterary Conversion鈥�: The Shaping of Literary Careers by Early Renaissance Writers鈥� (co-supervision).
Thomasin Bailey (completed 2019), 鈥楢uthority and Influence in Lady Mary Wroth鈥檚 Pamphilia to Amphilanthus鈥� (co-supervision).
Ovanes Akopyan (completed 2018), 鈥楥ontroversies on Astrology in Renaissance Italy in the Late 15th and Early 16th Centuries鈥� (co-supervision).
Katie Smith (completed 2017), 鈥極vidian Female-Voiced Complaint Poetry鈥� (co-supervision).
Vlad Brljak (completed 2015), 鈥楢llegory and Modernity in English Literature, c. 1575-1675鈥� (co-supervision).
Too much supervision
(Arithmetica, Antwerp, Hieronymus Cock, c. 1565)