Lauren HOLMES

Post Nominals	BA, MA
Biography	A second year PhD candidate at the University of Salford researching intersections between women’s religious writing and the activities of radical Puritan sects in the mid-seventeenth century. Particularly interested in literary representations of female spirituality and agency in England’s Long Reformation, as well as in challenging critical assumptions about the role of religion in shaping the authorship and publication practices of women in the seventeenth century. Has written on the roles of religion, affectivity, and metatheatricality in the literatures of William Shakespeare, John Milton, America, and the Gothic.

Post Nominals

BA, MA

Biography

A second year PhD candidate at the University of Salford researching intersections between women’s religious writing and the activities of radical Puritan sects in the mid-seventeenth century. Particularly interested in literary representations of female spirituality and agency in England’s Long Reformation, as well as in challenging critical assumptions about the role of religion in shaping the authorship and publication practices of women in the seventeenth century. Has written on the roles of religion, affectivity, and metatheatricality in the literatures of William Shakespeare, John Milton, America, and the Gothic.