Harriet Archer

Dr

  • KY16 9AL

    United Kingdom

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Biography

Harriet Archer received her BA, MSt and DPhil from Christ Church, Oxford, with doctoral funding from the AHRC. She has held fellowships including a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at Newcastle University, as well as an O. B. Hardison Research Fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Institute in Washington D. C. and Francis Bacon Fellowship at the Huntington Library, CA, and has taught at Jesus College, Oxford, and the University of Colorado, Boulder. She joined St Andrews in 2018. 

Research interests

Harriet's research focuses on Tudor attitudes toward textual transmission, cultural production and literary authority, including the Renaissance reception of classical and medieval writing and thought in drama and printed poetry. Her first book, Unperfect Histories: the Mirror for Magistrates, 1559-1610, was published by Oxford University Press in 2017, and explores the ways in which narratives of national history and identity were interrogated and refracted throughout the development of this seminal poem collection in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. She is currently working on an edition of Norton and Sackville's Elizabethan tragedy Gorboduc for the Manchester Revels Plays Series, with Paul Frazer, and of the sixteenth-century English translations of Erasmus's Colloquies for the MHRA Tudor and Stuart Translations Series' Erasmus in English, 1523-1584 with Alex Davis, Gordon Kendal and Neil Rhodes, as well as a second monograph, provisionally titled New Poets: Writing and Authority in Elizabeth England.

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Education/Academic qualification

Doctor of Philosophy, The Mirror for Magistrates, 1559-1610: Transmission, Appropriation, and the Poetics of Historiography, University of Oxford

Award Date: 26 Apr 2013

Master of Studies, English Literature 1540-1780, University of Oxford

Award Date: 1 Jul 2008

Bachelor of Arts, English Language and Literature, University of Oxford

Award Date: 1 Jul 2007

External positions

Lecturer, University of Colorado

17 Jan 20171 Jun 2018

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Newcastle

1 Sept 201331 Aug 2016

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