Alice Hunt

Professor Alice Hunt is a historian and literary scholar at the University of Southampton, specializing in early modern monarchy, ritual, and queenship. She is affiliated with the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture and actively contributes to research projects examining monarchical symbolism and political transitions.

• Education: BA in English and French from Balliol College, Oxford
• MA and PhD from Birkbeck College, London

Her research focuses on:

• Early modern monarchy and political rituals
• Comparative queenship studies
• The English republic and its cultural legacy
• Modern monarchy's role in postcolonial Caribbean nations

Key publications include Republic: Britain's Revolutionary Decade, 1649-1660 (2024) and analyses of Stuart coronations and Tudor political allegory. Her work spans interdisciplinary approaches to history, literature, and cultural studies.

• Leverhulme Research Fellowship
• AHRC-funded co-investigator on 'The Visible Crown' project

Professor Hunt supervises PhD students in topics related to early modern British literature and politics while teaching undergraduate and MA modules on Shakespeare, queenship, and publishing history.