Dr Rachel Stenner

University of Sussex

 

Rachel Stenner is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Sussex. Rachel is a member of the Society for Renaissance Studies and sits on the National Printing Heritage Trust, the Publications Committee of the Printing Historical Society and the Steering Group for the British Museum of Printing.

Rachel’s research is about the literature and culture of the late medieval and early modern periods, with a particular emphasis on Tudor writers, print culture, and book history. Her monograph, The Typographic Imaginary in Early Modern English Literature came out in 2018, and her co-edited collection of essays, Rereading Chaucer and Spenser: Dan Geffrey with the New Poete, in 2019. She has another collection in press,  Print Culture, Agency, and Regionality in the Hand Press Period.  

She is currently writing a monograph on the mid-Tudor satirist and printer’s assistant, William Baldwin, whose Collected Literary Works she is co-editing for Boydell & Brewer.  

Contact Details

r.j.stenner@sussex.ac.uk