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Dr Georgina Wilson
Georgina Wilson is a College Teaching Associate in English.
Academic interests
Georgina Wilson's specialism is early modern literature, and she is particularly interested in the real and imagined history of the book. She is writing a monograph entitled Paper and the Making of Early Modern Literature which is about how paper – as both a trope or metaphor, and a physical material – shapes literature. Georgina has published on how paper changes what we mean by ‘surface reading’, the ways in which early modern readers used their books, Michel Serres and ‘folded time’, and the paper-maker John Spilman. She is also co-editing a special issue of Journal of Early Modern Studies entitled ‘The Politics of Book History: Then And Now’.
Alongside her academic publications, Georgina writes for the Times Literary Supplement. At Cambridge, she teaches Literature 1500-1700, Shakespeare, Material Renaissance, Tragedy, and Practical Criticism, and she is interested in the overlaps between critical writing, creative writing, and craft.
Degrees obtained
- BA, Oxford.
- MA, York.
- PhD, Oxford.
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Publications, links and resources
- ‘Book modifications’, The Oxford Handbook to the History of the Book in Early Modern England ed. Adam Smyth (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp.587–610.
- ‘Surface Reading Paper as Feminist Bibliography’, Criticism 64.3-4 (2022), ‘New Directions in Critical Bibliography and the Material Text’, eds. Lisa Maruca and Kate Ozment, pp.369–383.
- ‘John Spilman: Paper-Making as Literary Print History’, in The People of Print: Seventeenth-Century England, eds. Kaley Kramer, Adam Smith, and Rachel Stenner (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), pp.11–17.
- ‘Folded Time: An Extra Hour(glass) in George Wither’s Collection of Emblemes (1635)’, Inscription: The Journal of Material Text 3 (2022), Folds.
- ‘Book Theory’, The Year’s Review in Critical and Cultural Theory 29.1 (2021), pp.216–36.
