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Interests
My interests include Shakespeare, early modern drama, editing, women’s writing and drama, adaptation, film and memory studies, and I welcome applications from doctoral students in these areas.
Research Statement
Ramona Wray is Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature.
She is the author of Women Writers of the Seventeenth Century (Plymouth: Northcote House, 2004), reissued by Liverpool University Press in 2018, and the co-author of Great Shakespeareans: Welles, Kurosawa, Kozintsev, Zeffirelli (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013), issued in paperback in 2015.
She is the editor of the Arden Early Modern Drama edition of Elizabeth Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam (London and New York: Methuen Drama, 2012).
She is also the co-editor of and contributor to the following essay collections: Shakespeare and Ireland: History, Politics, Culture (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997), Shakespeare, Film, Fin de Siècle (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000), Reconceiving the Renaissance: A Critical Reader (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), Screening Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006) and The Edinburgh Companion to Shakespeare and the Arts (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011).
Her articles have appeared in such journals as Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Cahiers Elisabethains, Critical Survey, Early Theatre, European Spectator, Literature/Film Quarterly, Memory Studies, Shakespeare, Shakespeare Bulletin, Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare Survey and Women’s Writing.
She was the Co-I of the AHRC Network project, ‘Memory and Community in Early Modern Britain’ (2012-2014), and is co-editor of one of the project’s outputs, a special issue of the journal, Memory Studies (2018).
She was PI of a Leverhulme Research Fellowship, 'A Literary Biography of Elizabeth Cary, Lady Tanfield (1585/6-1639)', and is currently PI of the EC/Horizon 2020 Marie Curie Individual Fellowship, 'Women's Epistolary Networks, 1600-1700: Ireland and Beyond'.
Teaching
Stage One Literature; Shakespeare and Company; Shakespeare on Screen; MA in Literary Studies.
In 2016, she was nominated for the SU Prize for the most Inspiring / Motivating Teacher and the QUB Student Nominated Teaching Award. In 2018, she was again nominated for the SU Prize for the most Inspiring / Motivating Teacher. In 2019, she was shortlisted for the Most Inspiring Teaching Award. She was awarded QUB Teaching awards in 2006 and 2020 respectively.
Achievements
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2001); Queen’s University Belfast Teaching Award (2006); Director and Trustee of the British Shakespeare Association (2009-2017); Belfast Ambassador Award (2017); Queen's University Belfast Sustained Excellence Teaching Award (2020).
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):
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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R6651AEL: Women's Epistolary Networks, 1600-1700: Ireland and Beyond
Wray, R. (PI)
27/05/2020 → …
Project: Research
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Televising atrocity and The Hollow Crown: changing technologies and "Renaissance" aesthetics
Wray, R., 23 Jan 2025, Atrocity and early modern drama. Johnson, S. & Lucas, G. (eds.). London and New York: Bloomsbury Publishing , (Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Afterword: Global Shakespearean Biofictions
Wray, R., 02 Nov 2023, Shakespearean biofiction on the contemporary stage and screen . Semple, E. & Hatfull, R. (eds.). London and New York : Bloomsbury Publishing , p. 177-186 10 p. (Shakespeare and Adaptation).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Cary, Elizabeth, Lady Falkland
Wray, R., 14 Jan 2023, The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing. Pender, P. & Smith , R. (eds.). Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 10 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Editing what is lost: histories, metatexts and the extant letters of Elizabeth Cary
Wray, R., 31 Oct 2023, In: Women's Writing. 30, 4, p. 369-383 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Shakespeare's desert camouflage
Wray, R., Aug 2023, Shakespeare at war. Massai, S. & Lidster, A. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 15 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Prizes
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EC/Horizon 2020 Marie Curie Individual Fellowship, Seal of Excellence
Wray, R. (Recipient), 25 Mar 2020
Prize: Other distinction
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EC/Horizon 2020 Marie Curie Individual Fellowship, Women's Epistolary Networks, 1600-1700: Ireland and Beyond
Wray, R. (Recipient), 04 Feb 2020
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
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Leverhulme Research Fellowship
Wray, R. (Recipient), 01 May 2019
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
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Member, Appointment Committee for Chair of the British Shakespeare Association
Wray, R. (Recipient), 08 Sept 2016
Prize: Appointment
Activities
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Renaissance Society of America Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Wray, R. (Invited speaker)
09 Mar 2023 → 11 Mar 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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Organiser, Irish Renaissance Seminar, Queen's University Belfast
Wray, R. (Organiser)
28 Jan 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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PhD Examiner, University of Birmingham
Wray, R. (Examiner)
20 Jan 2023Activity: Examination types › PhD external examination
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External Reviewer, Trinity College Dublin
Wray, R. (Examiner)
02 Dec 2022Activity: Examination types › Other examination
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In and Out of the Closet: New Perspectives on Closet Drama, University of Paris, Sorbonne Nouvelle
Wray, R. (Keynote/plenary speaker)
25 Nov 2022 → 26 Nov 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Press/Media
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Presenter/reviewer of Macbeth (dir. Kit Monkman, 2017), Queen's Film Theatre
10/06/2017
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
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Televised plenary at SEDERI (Spanish and Portugese Society for English and Renaissance Studies), University of Vigo, Pontevedra, Spain
03/05/2017
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
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Participant in 'Shakespeare Lives Across the Island: Conversations and Celebrations'
07/06/2016
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities