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Emma is Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at Newcastle University. Emma is interested in family, gender, and power on stage and in popular culture in early modern England. Her book Shakespeare's Domestic Tragedies (Cambridge University Press, 2019) is co-winner of the Shakespeare's Globe Book Award 2020, and is now available in paperback. Emma has also published articles on early modern 'true crime', staging domestic and sexual violence, and performance practice as research. Emma is currently working on non-traditional families in early modern England. Emma regularly speaks about her research in the media; recent appearances include BBC Woman's Hour, and an interval interview for the live screening of the RSC Measure for Measure.
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Practice as ResearchEmma is interested in practice as research as an approach to early modern drama. She has directed a number of practice as research productions, staged readings, and workshops, working with Shakespeare's Globe, Northern Stage, Newcastle University, the National Trust, the Wellcome Collection, the Shakespeare Association of America, UCL, King's College London, Goodenough College, and New College, Oxford. |
PlaywritingEmma is a playwright: her new play The Defamation of Cicely Lee is the winner of the American Shakespeare Center's 'Shakespeare's New Contemporaries' competition. Her play Shakespeare's Sister has been published by Samuel French, and received its international premiere at the ASC in Spring 2016. Emma has written adaptations of Sense and Sensibility (2017) and Emma (2018) for the ASC, and is working on a play about the Jacobean 'Belvoir Castle witches', which recently received a staged reading at the London Shakespeare Centre (2019).
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