{"id":3020,"date":"2020-05-14T14:48:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T13:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/?p=3020"},"modified":"2020-05-14T14:48:02","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T13:48:02","slug":"dr-rory-loughnane-elected-plumer-visiting-fellow-at-university-of-oxford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2020\/05\/14\/dr-rory-loughnane-elected-plumer-visiting-fellow-at-university-of-oxford\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Rory Loughnane elected Plumer Visiting Fellow at University of Oxford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Dr Rory Loughnane, Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Studies at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/english\">School of English<\/a>, who has been elected as <a href=\"https:\/\/earlymodern.web.ox.ac.uk\/article\/visiting-fellows\">Plumer Visiting Fellow<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Early Modern English Literature\u00a0at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk\/\">St. Anne\u2019s College<\/a>, University of Oxford.<\/p>\n<p>The Plumer Visiting Fellowship is a position designed for\u00a0notable academics\u00a0that have contributed prominently to their\u00a0field of research, to be temporarily resident in Oxford for the period of the role whilst they pursue a\u00a0particular area of research.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Loughnane\u2019s appointment to the role follows a\u00a0sustained period of outstanding contribution\u00a0to the\u00a0field of literary research, most notably on the influence and writings of playwrights and poets Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, and Thomas Middleton. In 2019 he was awarded the\u00a0Calvin and Rose G. Hoffman Prize\u00a0for distinguished work in Marlowe studies.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning in\u00a0Spring of 2021, Dr Loughnane\u2019s research as Plumer Visiting Fellow will\u00a0focus further on the writings\u00a0of Christopher Marlowe, as he undertakes\u00a0bibliographical analyses\u00a0of the Bodleian Library\u2019s holdings in the earliest printings of Marlowe\u2019s works. Dr Loughnane is General Editor of the forthcoming\u00a0<em>The Oxford Marlowe: Collected Works<\/em>, collaborating with School of English colleagues <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/english\/people\/107\/richardson-catherine\">Professor Catherine Richardson<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/english\/people\/86\/dustagheer-sarah\">Dr Sarah Dustagheer<\/a> and a team of twenty-five international scholars to produce a new research-led edition\u00a0of the works of the Canterbury-born poet-playwright. The editorial project will be\u00a0based at the University of Kent.<\/p>\n<p>Of his election to the Fellowship, Dr Loughnane said: \u201cI am delighted to have been elected\u00a0to the position of Plumer Visiting Fellow at St. Anne\u2019s College, University of Oxford.\u00a0It is an honour to have been considered. I look forward to spending some dedicated time with the Bodleian\u2019s extensive collection and hope that my research there will make a\u00a0positive contribution to the edition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/english\/people\/94\/james-sarah\">Dr Sarah James<\/a>, Head of the School of English said: \u2018We\u2019re delighted that Dr Loughnane has been awarded this very prestigious fellowship. He is one of the\u00a0foremost textual scholars of his generation, and it is wonderful to see the international reach and significance of his work recognised in this way. It is\u00a0a fantastic achievement, and very richly deserved.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Dr Rory Loughnane, Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Studies at the\u00a0School of English, who has been elected as Plumer Visiting Fellow\u00a0in\u00a0Early Modern English &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2020\/05\/14\/dr-rory-loughnane-elected-plumer-visiting-fellow-at-university-of-oxford\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55813,"featured_media":3021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,124,70,9111],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3022,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020\/revisions\/3022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}