Staff Profile

Roles and Resposibilities

Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, HaSS Faculty

Director of the Research England/Office for Students funded project, #PGRWellbeing4All

Qualifications

BA (Oxford), PGCE (Liverpool), PhD (Liverpool)

Undergraduate Teaching

I contribute to a wide range of undergraduate modules. In 2018-19 I am module leader for SEL3100 Other Renaissances: Gender, Race and Sexuality in Early Modern Culture, and contribute lectures to SEL1023 Transformations and SEL2202 Writing New Worlds.

Postgraduate Teaching

None in 2018-19

Research Interests

My core interests are in the politics of gender and sexuality in relation to textual production, paying particular attention to their inflection by matters of race, nation and location, and to the ways in which cultural authority is articulated, exercised and contested through process of reading, writing and performance.

Having established my reputation as a Shakespeare scholar (Shakespeare’s Queer Children: Sexual Politics and Contemporary Culture, 1996), I have increasingly focused on women’s cultural production across a range of modes and genres, with a strong emphasis on bringing intersectional feminist methods and approaches into dialogue with historicised, and frequently archive-based scholarship (Women’s Writing in the British Atlantic World: Memory, Place and History, 1550-1700, 2007).

These methods and approaches have also been extended to the study of representations of childhood and textual production by children, attending initially to children's literature and more recently to writings by children and the history of childhood.

Other Expertise

I have particular interests in performances of gender and childhood; the relations between literature and memory; and life-writing.

Current Work

I am currently working on two projects:

Open Clasp, Open Archive: With my colleague Rosalind Haslett and Catrina McHugh MBE, Director of Newcastle-based theatre company Open Clasp (http://www.openclasp.org.uk/), I am developing a project to bring the company's archive into the University and explore its potential as a catalyst for research, teaching and engagement. 

Renaissance Childhoods: A body of essays that brings together my critical, historical and theoretical interests in children and childhood with the expertise I've gained from working on early modern women's manuscript writings to investigate MS writings by children as a source for both literary history and the history of childhood.

Postgraduate Supervision

PhDs recently completed under my supervision include a creative practice doctorate on contemporary women's/queer theatre-making, and one on female voice in Shakespeare's late plays. I am currently supervising a Masters by Research project exploring the intersections between emerging feminist discourses and the representation of sex work in the C18th. I welcome inquiries from potential students whose interests dovetail with any aspect of mine, as outlined above or evidenced by my publications list.

• Chedgzoy K. Other maids: Religion, Race, and Relationships Between Girls in Early Modern London. In: Miller, NJ and Purkiss, D, ed. Literary Cultures and Medieval and Early Modern Childhoods. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, pp.187-201.
• Chedgzoy K. Afterword. In: Higginbotham J; Johnston MA, ed. Queering Childhood in Early Modern English Drama and Culture. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, pp.257-267.
• Chedgzoy K. Cavalier and she-majesty: the cultural politics of gender in Jane Cavendish’s poetry. The Seventeenth Century 2017, 32(4), 393-412.
• Chedgzoy K, Graham E, Hodgkin K, Wray R. Researching memory in early modern studies. Memory Studies 2018, 11(1), 5-20.
• Chedgzoy K. A Renaissance for Children?. Newcastle upon Tyne: Newcastle University, 2013. Available at: http://eprint.ncl.ac.uk/pub_details2.aspx?pub_id=196398.
• Chedgzoy K. Did Children have a Renaissance?. Early Modern Women 2013, 8, 261-274.
• Chedgzoy K. Make me a poet, and I'll quickly be a man: masculinity, pedagogy and poetry in the English Renaissance. Renaissance Studies 2013, 27(5), 592-611.
• Chedgzoy K. Horrible Shakespearean Histories: Performing the Renaissance for and with Children. In: Burnett, M.T., Streete, A, ed. Filming and Performing Renaissance History. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, pp.112-126.
• Chedgzoy K. Households. In: Sanders, J, ed. Ben Jonson in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp.254-268.
• Chedgzoy K. Remembering Aemilia Lanyer. Journal of the Northern Renaissance 2010, 2010(2), 14-35.
• Chedgzoy K. Shakespeare's Welsh Grandmother. In: Maley, W., Schwyzer, P, ed. Shakespeare and Wales: From the Marches to the Assembly. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010, pp.7-20.
• Chedgzoy K. Playing with Cupid : Gender, Sexuality and Adolescence. In: Henderson, DE, ed. Alternative Shakespeares. London: Routledge, 2007, pp.138-157.
• Chedgzoy K, Greenhalgh S, Shaughnessy R, ed. Shakespeare and Childhood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
• Rossington M, Whitehead A, Contributing eds.: Anderson L, Chedgzoy K, Mukherjee P, Richards J, ed. Theories of Memory: A Reader. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007.
• Chedgzoy K. Women, Gender, and the Politics of Location. In: Dympna Callaghan, ed. The Impact of Feminism in English Renaissance Studies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
• Chedgzoy K. Women's Writing in the British Atlantic World: Memory, Place and History, 1550-1700. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
• Chedgzoy K, Greenhalgh S, ed. Shakespeare in the Cultures of Childhood, 1807-2007. Special issue of the journal Shakespeare. London: Taylor and Francis, 2006.
• Chedgzoy K. The Cultural Geographies of Early Modern Women’s Writing: Journeys Across Spaces and Times. Literature Compass 2006, 3(4), 884-895.
• Chedgzoy CS. In the Lesbian Archive. GLQ - a Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 2005, 11(3), 457-467.
• Chedgzoy K. Marlowe's men and women: gender and sexuality. In: Cheney, P, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Marlowe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp.245-261.
• Chedgzoy K. This pleasant and sceptered isle: insular fantasies of national identity in Anne Dowriche's The French Historie and William Shakespeare's Richard. In: Mealor, S., Schwyzer, P, ed. Archipelagic Identities: Literature and Identity in the Atlantic Archipelago, 1550-1800. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004, pp.25-42.
• Chedgzoy K. The Civility of Early Modern Welsh Women. In: Richards, J, ed. Early Modern Civil Discourses. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, pp.162-182.
• Francis E, Pratt M, Chedgzoy K, ed. In a Queer Place: Sexuality and Belonging in British and European Contexts. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002.
• Stevenson J, Davidson P (eds.), contributors, Bateman M, Chedgzoy K, Sanders J. Early Modern Women Poets: An Anthology. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2001.
• Chedgzoy K. Shakespeare, Feminism, and Gender. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave, 2001.
• Chedgzoy KC. Measure for Measure: William Shakespeare. Tavistock: Northcote House in association with the British Council, 2000.
• Chedgzoy K. Region, religion, and sexuality: “Pilgrim through this barren land”. In: Phillips, R., Shuttleworth, D., Watt, D, ed. De-Centering Sexualities : Politics and Representations Beyond the Metropolis. London, UK: Routledge, 2000, pp.47-62.
• Chedgzoy K. “Blackness yields to beauty”: The desirability of difference in early modern culture. In: McMullan, G, ed. Renaissance Configurations: Voices, Bodies, Spaces, 1590-1690. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave, 1998, pp.108-128.
• Chedgzoy K. Introduction: Refashioning Ben Jonson. In: Sanders, J., Wiseman, S, ed. Refashioning Ben Jonson: Gender, Politics and the Jonsonian Canon. Basingstoke, UK: Macmillan, 1998, pp.1-27.
• Chedgzoy K, ed. Refashioning Ben Jonson: Gender, Politics and the Jonsonian Canon. Basingstoke, UK: Macmillan, 1998.
• Chedgzoy K. “Two loves I have”: Shakespeare and bisexuality. In: Allen, L., Bi-Academic Intervention, ed. The Bisexual Imaginary: Representation, Identity, Desire. London, UK: Cassell, 1997, pp.106-119.
• Trill S, Chedgzoy K, Osbourne M, ed. Lay by Your Needles, Ladies, Take the Pen: English Women’s Writing, 1500-1700. London, UK: Edward Arnold, 1997.
• Chedgzoy K. Shakespeare's Queer Children: Sexual Politics and Contemporary Culture. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 1996.
• Chedgzoy K, Hansen M, Trill S, ed. Voicing Women: Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Writing. Keele, UK: Keele University Press, 1996.
• Chedgzoy K. Frida Kahlo’s 'grotesque” bodies’. In: Florence, P., Reynolds, D, ed. Feminist Subjects, Multi-media: Cultural Methodologies. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 1995, pp.39-53.
• Chedgzoy K. The (pregnant) prince and the showgirl: Cultural legitimacy and the reproduction of Hamlet in. In: Burnett, M., Manning, J, ed. New Essays on ‘Hamlet'. New York: AMS Press, 1994, pp.249-269.
• Chedgzoy K. Impudent women: Gender and carnival in early modern culture. The Glasgow Review 1993, 1, 9-22.
• Chedgzoy K. Moralising the colonial body: Discourses of difference in early modern writing. Liverpool Studies in Language and Discourse 1993, 1, 23-43.