
Dr Allison L. Steenson
Centre for Research Collections Fellow, February - July 2024 (previously Postdoctoral Fellow, September 2019 - January 2020)
Home Institution: University of Sussex
Allison Steenson has been awarded a PhD in English literature from the University of Padua in 2018. Her first monograph, The Hawthornden Manuscripts of William Fowler and the Jacobean Court 1603-1612, was published in 2020.
Project Title: The Scoto-British Subjects of James I: Literature and Nation Building in Newly United Great Britain, 1603-1617
Allison has been a Marie Curie Individual Fellow at the University of Sussex, Brighton, working on the so-called “Scoto-British” writers active around the Union of the Crowns, and on the building of a British political and cultural identity through literature. She is spending her time as an IASH Fellow to expand on these ideas and highlight the Scottish dimension of “Scoto-British” poetry.