Niamh Dolly Fitzpatrick
Associate Lecturer & Doctoral Researcher
Research Memberships:
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I am member of the Women’s Studies Group 1558 – 1837, the British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, and the British Shakespeare Association.
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I am also a member of staff at the University of Worcester, working as an Associate Lecturer in English Literature (Department of English, Media, and Culture) and PGR Rep for the College of Education, Culture, and Society.
My Research
My thesis intends to examine female authored villainy in Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century tragedy and tragicomedy (1660-1702), by focusing on two interconnected strands of investigation.
Firstly, through an examination of female authored works by Margaret Cavendish, Frances Boothby, Aphra Behn, Catherine Trotter, Delarivier Manley, Mary Pix and Susanna Centlivre, I intend to investigate women’s treatment of villainy in their drama. This is done with the intention of demonstrating how my chosen dramatists are using their characterisation of the villain, to develop revenge tragic drama as a genre in the period, consequently situating the evolution of the characterisation, and genre more widely, as a response to the dramatic and socio-political context of the era.
Through my examination of this development of genre, my thesis will also trace the wider evolution of female dramatic writing in the period, thus recognising how the development of the revenge tragic genre mirrors an evolving female dramatic voice in the era more widely.
Research Groups:
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I am a member of
- The Women’s Studies Group 1558 – 1837,
- The International Margaret Cavendish Society,
- The Vagina Museum.
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I am also a member of staff at the University of Worcester, working as an Associate Lecturer in English Literature (Department of English, Media, and Culture) and PGR Rep for the College of Education, Culture, and Society.
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Education:
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MPhil / PhD English Literature and Language, University of Worcester.
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Shakespeare Studies MA, University of Birmingham.
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English Literature BA (Hons), University of Worcester.
