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Dr Lindsay Reid

BA, MA, PhD

Contact Details

Lecturer Above The Bar
English
College of Arts,Social Science
and Celtic Studies
NUI Galway

E: lindsay.reid@nuigalway.ie
 
researcher

Biography

Lindsay Ann Reid is a graduate of the University of King’s College (BA in Early Modern Studies and Classics, 2003) and the University of Toronto (MA in Comparative Literature, 2004; PhD in English and Book History, 2009). Before joining the National University of Ireland, Galway, she previously taught at several universities in Canada and worked as an Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey. Her primary research and teaching interests include literature c. 1370-1625, classical poetry, mythology, adaptation and reception studies, and early English print culture. She is the author of a monograph on the late medieval and Renaissance reception of Ovid's works entitled Ovidian Bibliofictions and the Tudor Book (2014). She welcomes enquiries from prospective postgraduate students wishing to pursue research in affiliated areas.  

Research Interests

English Literature, c. 1370-1625 (including Chaucer, Gower, Spenser, Shakespeare); Ancient Roman Poetry (including Ovid and Virgil); Classical Mythology; Folklore; Adaptation; Reception Studies; Book History and Early English Print Culture; Anthologies and Miscellanies; Broadside Ballads


Books

  Year Publication
(2014) Ovidian Bibliofictions and the Tudor Book: Metamorphosing Classical Heroines in Late Medieval and Renaissance England.
Lindsay Ann Reid (2014) Ovidian Bibliofictions and the Tudor Book: Metamorphosing Classical Heroines in Late Medieval and Renaissance England. Aldershot: Ashgate. [Details]

Peer Reviewed Journals

  Year Publication
(2018) '[forthcoming] Diana, Dido, and The Fair Maid of Dunsmore: Classical Precursors, Common Tunes, and the Question of Consent in Seventeenth-Century Balladry'
Lindsay Ann Reid (2018) '[forthcoming] Diana, Dido, and The Fair Maid of Dunsmore: Classical Precursors, Common Tunes, and the Question of Consent in Seventeenth-Century Balladry'. The Seventeenth Century, [Details]
(2016) 'Oenone and Colin Clout'
Lindsay Ann Reid (2016) 'Oenone and Colin Clout'. Translation and Literature, 25 (3) [Details]
(2015) 'Two Echoes of Euphues in The Fair Maid of the Exchange'
Lindsay Ann Reid (2015) 'Two Echoes of Euphues in The Fair Maid of the Exchange'. Notes & Queries, 62 (2) [Details]
(2015) 'Teaching Caxton’s Prologue to Eneydos as an Introduction to Renaissance Literary Culture'
Lindsay Ann Reid (2015) 'Teaching Caxton’s Prologue to Eneydos as an Introduction to Renaissance Literary Culture'. This Rough Magic, 5 (1) [ARAN Link] [Details]
(2014) 'The Spectre of the School of Night: Former Scholarly Fictions and the Stuff of Academic Fiction'
Lindsay Ann Reid (2014) 'The Spectre of the School of Night: Former Scholarly Fictions and the Stuff of Academic Fiction'. Early Modern Literary Studies, (Special Issue 23) [ARAN Link] [Details]
(2014) 'Gower’s Slothful Aeneas in Batman’s Christall Glasse of Christian Reformation'
Lindsay Ann Reid (2014) 'Gower’s Slothful Aeneas in Batman’s Christall Glasse of Christian Reformation'. Notes & Queries, 61 (3) [Details]
(2014) 'Virgilian and Ovidian Tree Similes in Troilus and Criseyde 2.1373-84'
Lindsay Ann Reid (2014) 'Virgilian and Ovidian Tree Similes in Troilus and Criseyde 2.1373-84'. Explicator, 72 (2) [Details]
(2012) 'Certaine Amorous Sonnets, Betweene Venus and Adonis”: Fictive Acts of Writing in The Passionate Pilgrime of 1612'
Lindsay Ann Reid (2012) 'Certaine Amorous Sonnets, Betweene Venus and Adonis”: Fictive Acts of Writing in The Passionate Pilgrime of 1612'. Etudes Epistémè, 21 [Details]
(2012) 'Beaumont and Fletcher’s Rhodes: Early Modern Geopolitics and Mythological Topography in The Maid’s Tragedy'
Lindsay Ann Reid (2012) 'Beaumont and Fletcher’s Rhodes: Early Modern Geopolitics and Mythological Topography in The Maid’s Tragedy'. Early Modern Literary Studies, 16 (2) [ARAN Link] [Details]
(2007) 'Certamen, Interpretation, and Ovidian Narration in The Faerie Queene III.ix-xii'
Lindsay Ann Reid (2007) 'Certamen, Interpretation, and Ovidian Narration in The Faerie Queene III.ix-xii'. Spenser Studies, 22 [Details]

Book Chapters

  Year Publication
(2018) '[forthcoming] The Argument to the Whole Discourse” and Other Aetiological Tales in Turberville’s Epitaphes, Epigrams, Songs and Sonets'
Lindsay Ann Reid (2018) '[forthcoming] The Argument to the Whole Discourse” and Other Aetiological Tales in Turberville’s Epitaphes, Epigrams, Songs and Sonets' In: New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, VI: Papers of the Renaissance English Text Society. Tempe, AZ: ACMRS. [Details]
(2017) 'Thanhouser's ''Fierce Abridgement'' of Cymbeline'
Lindsay Ann Reid (2017) 'Thanhouser's ''Fierce Abridgement'' of Cymbeline' In: Shakespeare on Screen: The Tempest and Late Romances. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Details]
(2017) 'Unsoiled Soil and “Fleshly Slime”: Representing Reproduction in Spenser’s Legend of Chastity'
Lindsay Ann Reid (2017) 'Unsoiled Soil and “Fleshly Slime”: Representing Reproduction in Spenser’s Legend of Chastity' In: Ground-Work: English Renaissance Literature and Soil Science. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press. [Details]
(2017) 'To the Tune of “Queen Dido”: The Spectropoetics of Early Modern English Balladry'
Lindsay Ann Reid (2017) 'To the Tune of “Queen Dido”: The Spectropoetics of Early Modern English Balladry' In: Singing Death: Reflections on Music and Mortality. London: Routledge. [Details]
(2017) 'The Passionate Pilgrim [chapter revision and supplement]'
Lindsay Ann Reid (2017) 'The Passionate Pilgrim [chapter revision and supplement]' In: The Definitive Shakespeare Companion: Overviews, Documents, and Analysis. Westport, CT: Greenwood. [Details]
(2014) 'Monstrosity, Monument and Multiplication: “The Lamenting Lady” Margaret of Henneberg (and Her 365 Children) in Early Modern England'
Lindsay Ann Reid (2014) 'Monstrosity, Monument and Multiplication: “The Lamenting Lady” Margaret of Henneberg (and Her 365 Children) in Early Modern England' In: Unnatural Reproductions and Monstrosity: The Birth of the Monster in Literature, Film, and Media. London: Cambria. [Details]

Artwork

  Year Publication
(2014) ‘Neuer before Imprinted’ (in Out of Sequence: The Sonnets Remixed).
Lindsay Ann Reid (2014) ‘Neuer before Imprinted’ (in Out of Sequence: The Sonnets Remixed). Artwork [Details]

Book Review

  Year Publication
(2016) Review of The Impotency Poem from Ancient Latin to Restoration English Literature by Hannah Lavery for The Spenser Review.
Lindsay Ann Reid (2016) Review of The Impotency Poem from Ancient Latin to Restoration English Literature by Hannah Lavery for The Spenser Review. Book Review [Details]
(2015) Review of The Ovidian Vogue: Literary Fashion and Imitative Practice in Late Elizabethan England by Daniel D. Moss for Sixteenth Century Journal.
Lindsay Ann Reid (2015) Review of The Ovidian Vogue: Literary Fashion and Imitative Practice in Late Elizabethan England by Daniel D. Moss for Sixteenth Century Journal. Book Review [Details]
(2015) Review of Love in Print in the Sixteenth Century: The Popularization of Romance by Ian Frederick Moulton for Sixteenth Century Journal.
Lindsay Ann Reid (2015) Review of Love in Print in the Sixteenth Century: The Popularization of Romance by Ian Frederick Moulton for Sixteenth Century Journal. Book Review [Details]
(2015) Review of Women in Shakespeare: A Dictionary by Alison Findlay for Australasian Drama Studies.
Lindsay Ann Reid (2015) Review of Women in Shakespeare: A Dictionary by Alison Findlay for Australasian Drama Studies. Book Review [Details]
(2010) Review of Metamorphosis: The Changing Face of Ovid in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, eds. Alison Keith and Stephen Rupp for University of Toronto Quarterly.
Lindsay Ann Reid (2010) Review of Metamorphosis: The Changing Face of Ovid in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, eds. Alison Keith and Stephen Rupp for University of Toronto Quarterly. Book Review [Details]

Conference Contributions

  Year Publication
(2017) Other Codes / Cóid Eile: Digital Literature in Context,
Kelly, David; Reid, Lindsay Ann; Tonra, Justin (2017) 'Patterns of Character and Structure in Shakespeare: Exploring Approaches to Data Visualisation'. [Conference Paper], Other Codes / Cóid Eile: Digital Literature in Context, Galway , 11-MAY-17 - 12-MAY-17. [Details]
(2017) Reception, Reputation and Circulation in the Early Modern World, 1500-1800,
Lindsay Ann Reid (2017) 'The Fair Maid of Dunsmore'. [Conference Paper], Reception, Reputation and Circulation in the Early Modern World, 1500-1800, Galway , 22-MAR-17 - 25-MAR-17. [Details]
(2016) The European Society for the Study of English Conference,
Lindsay Ann Reid and Yuri Cowan (2016) Co-convenor of the 'Anachronism and the Medieval' Seminar. [Co-chaired Session], The European Society for the Study of English Conference, NUI Galway , 22-AUG-16 - 26-AUG-16. [Details]
(2016) Epistolary Cultures: Letters and Letter-Writing in Early Modern Europe,
Lindsay Ann Reid (2016) 'Turberville's Tymetes and Pyndara'. [Conference Paper], Epistolary Cultures: Letters and Letter-Writing in Early Modern Europe, York , 18-MAR-16 - 19-MAR-16. [Details]
(2015) International Spenser Society Conference,
Lindsay Ann Reid (2015) ‘Oenone, Harpalus, and Colin: Pastoral Contaminatio in The Araygnement of Paris and Englands Helicon’. [Conference Paper], International Spenser Society Conference, Dublin , 18-JUN-15 - 20-JUN-15. [Details]
(2015) Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting,
Lindsay Ann Reid (2015) 'Miscellaneous Lyrics and Implicit Aetiologies: Tottel's Surrey and the Tudor Reception of Ovid'. [Conference Paper], Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Berlin , 26-MAR-15 - 28-MAR-15. [Details]
(2014) Shakespeare 450,
Lindsay Ann Reid (2014) ‘“This Fierce Abridgement”: Thanhouser’s Two-Reel Cymbeline (1913) and the Question of Genre’. [Conference Paper], Shakespeare 450, Paris , 21-APR-14 - 27-APR-14. [Details]
(2014) Swiss Association of Medieval and Early Modern English Studies Conference,
Lindsay Ann Reid (2014) ‘Conning Lines and ‘Cunning Art’: The Mechanics of English Eloquence in The Fair Maid of the Exchange’. [Conference Paper], Swiss Association of Medieval and Early Modern English Studies Conference, Fribourg , 12-SEP-14 - 13-SEP-14. [Details]
(2011) IDEA Conference,
Lindsay Ann Reid (2011) ‘Classical Helens, Medieval Iseults, and Shakespeare’s “Double Cherry” in A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. [Conference Paper], IDEA Conference, Istanbul , 13-APR-11 - 15-APR-11. [Details]
(2011) Modern Language Association Annual Meeting,
Lindsay Ann Reid (2011) ‘Reading Lyric for the Narrative: Tudor “Autobiographies” of Ovid’. [Conference Paper], Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles , 06-JAN-11 - 09-JAN-11. [Details]
(2009) Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting,
Lindsay Ann Reid (2009) ‘Gossip in Print: Wynkyn de Worde’s 1517 Troilus and Criseyde’. [Conference Paper], Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Los Angeles , 19-MAR-09 - 21-MAR-09. [Details]
(2008) Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting,
Lindsay Ann Reid (2008) 'Betweene Venus and Adonis”: The Passionate Pilgrim and the Poetics of Exchange’. [Conference Paper], Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, Dallas , 13-MAR-08 - 15-MAR-08. [Details]
(2008) Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting,
Lindsay Ann Reid (2008) ‘More, Lucretius, and the Iconography of Civilization’. [Conference Paper], Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Chicago , 03-APR-08 - 05-APR-08. [Details]
(2007) Toronto Centre for the Book’s ‘Popularity and the Book’ Colloquium,
Lindsay Ann Reid (2007) ‘Permeable Heroines: Ovidian Characters, Popularity, and Genre in the Sixteenth Century’. [Conference Paper], Toronto Centre for the Book’s ‘Popularity and the Book’ Colloquium, Toronto , 22-MAR-07 - 22-MAR-07. [Details]
(2006) International Spenser Society Conference,
Lindsay Ann Reid (2006) ‘Busirane’s Caelestia Crimina: The Contest of Ovidian Interpretation in The Faerie Queene III’. [Conference Paper], International Spenser Society Conference, Toronto , 18-MAY-06 - 21-MAY-06. [Details]

Honours and Awards

  Year Title Awarding Body
2017 Warburg Library Travel Grant Warburg Institute, University of London
2016 IRC New Foundations Grant Irish Research Council
2016 RIA Charlemont Grant Royal Irish Academy
2016 Millennium Research Funding College of Arts, NUI Galway
2016 Millennium Fund Teaching Buyout College of Arts, NUI Galway
2015 EXPLORE Staff/Student Partnership Grant NUI Galway
2010 A.S.P. Woodhouse Prize University of Toronto

Education

  Year Institution Qualification Subject
2016 National University of Ireland, Galway Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education Teaching Teaching and Learning
2009 University of Toronto DOCTORAL DEGREE (LEVEL 10) English and the Collaborative Program in Book History and Print Culture
2004 University of Toronto MASTERS DEGREE (LEVEL 9) Comparative Literature
2003 University of King's College HONOURS BACHELOR DEGREE (LEVEL 8) Classics and Early Modern Studies

Employment

  Employer Position From / To
Koc University, Istanbul Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature 01-SEP-10 / 01-SEP-13
National University of Ireland, Galway Lecturer in English 01-SEP-13 /

Community Engagement

  Title Type From / To
Other Subject Advisor (English) for the Irish Teaching Council 01-JAN-17 /

Teaching Interests

Renaissance/Early Modern Literature