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Reader in English, University of Hull

Stewart Mottram is Reader in English, specializing in interdisciplinary approaches to seventeenth-century literature in its religious, social, and environmental contexts. Author of Ruin and Reformation in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Marvell (Oxford UP, 2019), he is particularly recognized for work on Hull poet and politician, Andrew Marvell (1621-78). He has held fellowships from the Leverhulme Trust (2008-10) and AHRC (2014-15), has led an AHRC/XR Stories academic-industry project to virtually recreate a 1640s flood of Hull (2019-20), and is Co-I on the AHRC Risky Cities project (2020-23). Mottram is Co-Director of Research in the School of Humanities and Deputy Director of the Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships Centre for Water Cultures at the University of Hull.

Experience

  • 2022–present
    Reader in English, University of Hull
  • 2019–2022
    Senior Lecturer in English, University of Hull
  • 2010–2019
    Lecturer in English, University of Hull
  • 2008–2010
    Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Aberystwyth University
  • 2006–2008
    Research Lecturer, Aberystwyth University

Education

  • 2005 
    University of Leeds, PhD English

Publications

  • 2021
    'A Most Excellent Medicine': Malaria, Mithridate, and the death of Andrew Marvell, The Seventeenth Century
  • 2019
    Ruin and Reformation in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Marvell, Oxford University Press
  • 2018
    The religious geography of Marvell’s An Horatian Ode: Popery, Presbytery, and PartiColoured Picts, The Seventeenth Century
  • 2018
    'With guiltles blood oft stained': Spenser’s Ruines of Time and the saints of Saint Albans , Spenser Studies

Grants and Contracts

  • 2021
    On the Edge: A co-created exploration of young people’s eco-anxiety in the face of climate uncertainty
    Role:
    Co-Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Natural Environment Research Council
  • 2020
    Risky Cities: Living with Water in an Uncertain Future Climate
    Role:
    Co-Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Arts and Humanities Research Council
  • 2019
    By the Rising tide of Humber: Flooding Andrew Marvell’s Hull in VR
    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Arts and Humanities Research Council (XR Stories)
  • 2014
    Representing Ruins in English Renaissance Literature
    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Arts and Humanities Research Council
  • 2008
    Pastoral: Writing Reformation in England and Wales.
    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Leverhulme Trust

Professional Memberships

  • Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. (Royal Society of Arts)