Dr. Laurie Atkinson

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Postdoc)/ Assistant Professor

Laurie Atkinson is a Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Postdoc) / Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Tübingen. After studying English Literature and Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Durham University and the University of Cambridge, he completed his PhD in English Literature at Durham University in 2021. His first monograph, Ideas of Authorship in the English and Scottish Dream Vision: Skelton, Dunbar, Hawes, Douglas, was published by Boydell and Brewer in 2024 (see https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781843846925/ideas-of-authorship-in-the-english-and-scottish-dream-vision/). He is currently completing a second book project on co-creativity in early English literary print, as an associate of the Subproject C05 ‘The Aesthetics of Co-Creativity in Early Modern English Literature’ within the CRC 1391 ‘Andere Ästhetik’ (‘Different Aesthetics’: see https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/core-research/collaborative-research-centers/crc-different-aesthetics/research-projects/project-area-c-concepts/c5-bauer-zirker/).

Laurie Atkinson’s teaching and research is focussed on late medieval and early modern English and Scottish literature, with an emphasis on reflections on literary production and the History of the Book. He is particularly interested in conceptions of authorship, both single and collaborative, and how these are utilised to promote literary texts. Other current projects include a new edition of The Pastime of Pleasure (1509) by Stephen Hawes for the Early English Text Society, and ongoing assistance to the general editors of the complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer, in preparation for Cambridge University Press.

For more information on Laurie Atkinson’s research and other activities, see https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0003-0754-2497.

CV

2022-24 – Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Lehrstuhl Prof. Dr. Matthias Bauer, English Department, University of Tübingen. Research project: ‘Co-creative networks in early English literary print’

2022 – Teach@Tübingen Fellow, Lehrstuhl Prof. Dr. Matthias Bauer, Englisches Department, University of Tübingen

2021-22 – MHRA Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of English and Drama, Queen Mary University of London, working on the Cambridge University Press edition of the complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer

2017-21 – AHRC Northern Bridge PhD, Department of English Studies, Durham University. Thesis title: ‘Dreaming of authors, authoring dreams: Literary authorship in the framed first-person allegories of John Skelton, William Dunbar, Stephen Hawes, and Gavin Douglas’

2016-17 – MPhil Medieval and Renaissance Literature, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge

2013-16 – BA (Hons) English Literature, Department of English Studies, Durham University

Publications and Talks

Selected Publications

Ideas of Authorship in the English and Scottish Dream Vision: Skelton, Dunbar, Hawes, Douglas (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2024)

[with Neil Cartlidge] ‘“The Baker’s Boy”: An Unpublished Seventeenth-Century Ballad in the Durham Troilus Manuscript’, Medium Ævum, 93 (2024), 174-88

‘A “troubly dreme drempt al in wakynge”: Hoccleve’s Nearly-Dream Poem, The Regiment of Princes, 1-2016’, in Thomas Hoccleve: New Approaches, ed. Jenni Nuttall and David Watt (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2022), 85-102

‘Wynkyn de Worde, Stephen Hawes, and the Improvisation of Genre in Early Sixteenth-Century English Poetry’, Renaissance Studies, 36 (2022), 252-77

Middle English Manuscripts and their Legacies: A Volume in Honour of Ian Doyle, ed. Richard Lawrie and Corinne Saunders with Laurie Atkinson (Leiden: Brill, 2022)

‘“This hinder nycht, halff sleiping as I lay…”: The Autobiographical Impulse in the Dream Poetry of William Dunbar’, Postgraduate English: A Journal and Forum for Postgraduates in English, 41 (2021), 1-11

‘“And to that ende, here is remembrance”: Registers of Petition in Thomas Hoccleve’s Devotional and Begging Poetry’, Medium Ævum, 88 (2019), 301-28

‘“Vnder Coloure I Dyuers Bokes Dyde Make”: “Obscure Allegory” in the Dream-Poems of Stephen Hawes’, Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature, 37 (2019), 105-30

‘“Why þat yee meeued been / can I nat knowe”: Autobiography, Convention, and Discerning Doublenesse in Thomas Hoccleve's The Series’, Neophilologus, 101 (2017), 1-16

Recent Talks

2024

‘[T]heyr foly dystynctly shal apere [...] in Pyctures fayre and large’: Text-Image Relations in the English Ship of Fools’, Text-Image Collaboration in the English-Speaking World from the Middle Ages to the Present, University of Strasbourg, 15-16 Nov. 2024

‘Early Modern Swiss-British Relations in Alexander Barclay’s The Shyp of Folys’, Swiss Association of Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 8th International Conference, University of Basel, 4–6 Sep. 2024

‘The Chaucerian Dream Vision in the Early Sixteenth Century’, New Chaucer Society Congress, Pasadena, 15–18 Jul. 2024 [virtual]

‘The Shyp of Folys of Alexander Barclay as an Object of Transnational Exchange’, The Early Modern Transnational Book Conference: Printing, Translating, and Reading 1500–1800, University of Manchester and Chetham’s Library, 28–29 May 2024

‘Republishing Romance, Remembering Printers in Mid-Tudor England’, 18th Biennial Romance in Medieval Britain Conference, University of Strasbourg, 9–11 Apr. 2024

2023

‘Co-Creativity in Early English Literary Print’, College of Fellows Humboldt Lecture, University of Tübingen, 23 Nov. 2023

‘“It doost no good lyenge styll in my chest”: English Literary Print’s Memories of Manuscript’, Early Book Society 17th Biennial Conference, University of Limerick, 11–15 Jul. 2023

“‘Let clerkis ken the poetis different”: Aeneid, “Book XIII” in Late Medieval Scotland’, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 3–6 Jul. 2023

Classes

WiSe 2024-25 (University of Tübingen)
Pastimes of Pleasure: How to Read a Book in Early Modern England (Advanced Module)
Introduction to Literary Studies (Basic Module)

WiSe 2023-24 (University of Tübingen)
Mark, Set, Go!: How to Make a Book in Early Modern England (Focus Module)

WiSe 2022-23 (University of Tübingen)
Introduction to Literary Studies (Seminar)

SoSe 2022 (University of Tübingen)
From More’s Utopia to Renaissance Sonnets: Early Tudor Literature (Seminar)

2020-21 (Durham University)
Classical and Biblical Backgrounds to English Literature (tutor)

2018-19, 2019-20, 2021-22 (Durham University)
Romance and the Literature of Chivalry (tutor)

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